Tim Clark won’t let go of the Airbus A380.
The president of Emirates Airline has long been the biggest cheerleader of the super-jumbo, highlighted by the fact that his airline operates more than 100 of the double-decker behemoths, far in excess of any rival.
Yet despite all the praise the long-serving executive has heaped on the plane over the years, Airbus SE could never make the numbers work. After orders ran dry, the European planemaker killed the program in 2019 and handed over the last unit at the end of 2021 — to Emirates. Dubai’s state-owned airline plans to fly its A380s into the next decade, and start retiring them in 2032, Clark said.
There’s still life for aircraft that size, Clark said Tuesday, likening the A380 to a Dyson vacuum cleaner that’s capable of gobbling up transfer capacity and redirecting it like no other jet. With travel demand booming and more people upgrading to the front of the cabin, Clark says his A380s are full and that passengers are loving the experience.
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