At the beginning of the year Emirates gave the A380 a new lifeline. For years it had looked like production of the A380 would end, given that the plane hadn't worked out the way Airbus had hoped, with very few new orders in the past few years. Emirates loves the A380, and has over 100…
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RR has had it issues of late some troubling. Their even having engine issues with their engines in military non flying applications. As a AF I always felt safe when seeing the RR on the cowlings not so much anymore
A once great engine maker now having reliability issues.
@lucky - I just heard that Cathay is taking the A350-1000 off the Washington Dulles route (just a few weeks after their launch). Instead their moving it to their SFO flight and making the Dulles flight an A350-900 as of November
RR screw-ups single handedly killed the L-1011, one it's time best airplane, both from technology and beauty point of view. Now they will kill the A380 too.. congrats
I have heard Emirates needs the order more than Airbus does. If the A380 production line doesn't stay open, then the existing fleet value will fall considerably due to the end of the line of the plane type. If this dynamic is indeed the case, EK will find a way to work it out with RR.
I think Emirates will have to keep this order because if Airbus stops production of the a380 then Emirates will have to purchase hundreds of replacement aircraft.
Rolls-Royce seems to be really struggling lately.
RR needs to develop a new high by-pass engine line-up instead of tweaking the RB211 from the 70s. This engine killed the L-1011 TriStart too....
Better stick to the GP
Marcus and AsTheCrowFlies, EK don't own the aircraft, some or other leasing company does, so value of aircraft isn't the biggest of their concerns, though replacement parts would be. As to needing the order, it's 30 aircraft, their existing fleet isn't going to disappear and they already have orders for several hundred 777X and 787s so they're not running out of aircraft. I actually think EK would love to get out of it, and blaming it on RR might be convenient to both Airbus and EK as a way to end the deal, while Airbus got the positive publicity from the deal initially
Marcus - No they won't... The existing A380s can continue operating even if they stop making new ones.
Asthecrowflies - what value? Airlines don't want the A380. Malaysian struggled to get rid of their 6 planes and gave up in the end. Emirates are never going to find decent buyers for over 100 of them, regardless of whether it's still in production or not.
So leave RR and revert back to the GP7200? RR faces quite the headwind going forward. With the Trent family problems, development of the Pearl, and Brexit doing heaven knows what to their supply chain? Yikes