Posted on 11/13/2023 12:22:43 PM PST by Red Badger
Luxury carrier Emirates Monday exercised options that will see the airline acquire an additional 95 wide-body planes from Boeing to augment its fleet. Photo courtesy of Emirates Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Luxury carrier Emirates Monday exercised options that will see the airline acquire an additional 95 wide-body planes from Boeing to augment its fleet.
The United Arab Emirates flag carrier confirmed the $52 billion order on the first day of the Dubai Airshow.
The airline will acquire a further 55 Boeing 777-9 passenger jets and 35 of the 777-8 variant of the next-generation wide-body plane collectively known as the 777X.
The Dubai-headquartered carrier also increased its order for Boeing's 787 Dreamliner jet by five additional aircraft. The airline has a total of 35 of the fuel-efficient Dreamliners on order, with deliveries expected to start midway through 2025.
"The new Boeing 777X will be the world's largest and most efficient twin-engine jet, unmatched in every aspect of performance. With new breakthroughs in aerodynamics and engines, the 777X will deliver 10% lower fuel use and emissions and 10% lower operating costs than the competition," is how Boeing describes the plane on its website.
Emirates currently operates 150 older variants of the twin-aisle Boeing 777s in its growing fleet and is in the process of retrofitting those aircraft. It is retrofitting more than 30 of those planes.
The 777-9 can be configured to carry up to 426 passengers in a typical two-class configuration, with a range of 7,295 nautical miles.
The longer-range 777-8 seats 395 passengers and can fly up to 8,745 nautical miles.
The airline now has a total of 205 aircraft on order from Boeing's passenger aviation division. It first announced an initial $9 billion order with Boeing in 2019, containing options to increase the number of aircraft.
"This order is an incredible vote of confidence in Boeing's highly efficient widebody family and the versatility of our 777X and 787 airplanes to meet Emirates' needs for global long-haul travel," Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Stan Deal said in a news release issued by the aviation giant.
"The 777-9 and 777-8 are the perfect airplanes to support Emirates' growth, improving environmental performance and unmatched payload capability along the way."
Emirates is growing its fleet in an effort to add an additional 400 cities to Dubai's foreign trade map over the next decade.
"Emirates is the biggest operator of Boeing 777 aircraft, and today's order cements that position. We've been closely involved in the 777 program since its start up until this latest generation of 777X aircraft," UAE Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed said in a news release issued by the airline.
"The 777 has been central to Emirates' fleet and network strategy of connecting cities on all continents non-stop to Dubai. We are pleased to extend our relationship with Boeing and look forward to the first 777-9 joining our fleet in 2025."
Emirates also operates the Airbus A380 as part of its fleet of wide-body planes, serving over 140 cities on six continents. The company also has over $10 billion worth of aircraft orders with France-based Airbus.
Whenever someone makes a purchase of many, many airplanes, I immediately remember Rush talking about the fact that those planes all run on hydrocarbons. The fact that they plan to use hundreds of planes far into the future is one more example that those in the know already have the information that we will not run out of hydrocarbons for hundreds of years. I do not believe we will ever run out. We have only drilled a few miles into the Earth. Every other month is another article of some country ‘finding’ another massive oil & gas deposit. Free flow of energy at market prices fuels freedom, which is why the democRATS cannot stand inexpensive, abundant energy, and do everything they can to limit our access.
Kinda expensive aircraft. 95 for $52 billion.
Airbus planes just seem smoother to me. Smoother in the air, smoother when we land......just seems that way.
I was thinking the same thing.
Mental calculation - $500 million per each.
With a calculator - $547 million per each.
The 777-9 has not flown on any revenue flights yet. 1st delivery to airlines will be in 2025.
Also, airlines pick the seats and pitch.
Maybe they are buying a set of full size spare tires instead of using the spare ‘donut’ tires that are included.... 😁
They have their own air force now.
That must be it.
No - they actually want an A380-900 NEO (longer with more efficient engines) but Airbus thinks there is no market for it beyond Emirates and won't build it. The 777-9 is a compromise.
For that short a flight, you were on a 737 (maybe a -900 variant), most likely. Some US airlines pick subpar coach configurations for those - especially the discount ones.
The currently operating 777 models are huge, have two aisles, and are flown only on transcontinental or international routes - you wouldn't have had any complaints about the elbow room. :)
I’d rather push an Emirates 777 than fly on any other airliner.
I remember when Boeing got an order for 1000 B-29s before they had ever assembled the first one...
It put 100,000 draft-ineligibles to work and wiped out a lot of test pilots getting the job done...
The B-29 was one of the greatest technological industrial leaps in history...
One of the key driving forces behind its development (so we could bomb those slant-eyed jap bastards directly) was the correlated decision to develop and deploy an atomic bomb...
Think the B-29 cost us double what the a-bomb development cost...
The B-29 was the bridegroom and the a-bomb(s) was the bride...
A marriage that saved millions of lives...
They (B-29s) were almost on their way to being judged a strategic failure until the Army finally put an ass-kicking MAGA-type American in charge...
👍👍👍🙏🙏
That makes sense. A-Bombs are pretty simple devices if you think about it............
It's the Emirates. They ordered all the options...........
I’m pretty sure the Emirates didn’t order the economy models like our American airlines do. They are a luxury premium airline.
American airliners are nothing more than flying cattle cars or metro busses. Stuff as many people per flight as you can, maximize profits.
Don’t blame the airliners, blame the airlines...................
And the stewardesses look like cattle.
Which end?....................
Nothing to do with the 777-X which does not enter service until 2025 and has not been ordered by any US airlines yet. Airlines wanting to run a US-style cattle car domestic service won't buy a product like the 777-9 anyway - it's too expensive for them.
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