Emirates boosts Airbus A380 order
Emirates has upped its order of Airbus A380 super jumbos from 43 to 47.
The airline is the main launch customer for the aircraft and will take delivery of its first A380 in the third quarter of 2008.
Emirates chairman and chief executive Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum said: βThe Airbus A380 will be instrumental in helping Emirates meet its growing passenger demand and will do it using one of the most efficient and greenest aircraft ever produced.β
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazineβs website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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