Emirates ! EK ! UAE !

Bonjour !

Rendre à César ce qui est a Jeannot !
Bien , je ne peux reproduire les liens, mais pas difficile de retrouver le sujet !

Une entrée de EK , chez AA, à 25, peut être 49 % ... improbable mais .... c'est dans le Buzz boursier !
Assez pour faire grimper les actions de AMR corp de 6-7 % ! Ouaf !
Bon, entre vérité et dénégations, on ne sait pas ...

Mais sûr que EK (Et les fonds derrière) , ne payeront que si ce n'est pas cher !
A suivre !

------------ Le Daily Herald, l'article ------------

http://dailyherald.com/story/?id=404495

Emirates, the biggest airline by international
traffic, said it has no plan to acquire a stake in AMR Corp., denying
speculation of a linkup with the parent of American Airlines.

"We certainly wouldn't be doing that," Emirates
President Tim Clark said in a telephone interview today. "Us buying a
stake in AMR? It wouldn't make sense."

AMR gained as much as 6.8 percent after
Theflyonthewall.com reported that Dubai-based Emirates was in talks with
the Justice Department to acquire a 49 percent stake. The shares of
Fort Worth, Texas-based AMR rose 13 cents, or 2.2 percent, to $6.17 at 4
p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.

U.S. law limits foreign ownership of domestic carriers
to no more than 25 percent of voting stock. AMR sat out the two recent
big mergers in the U.S. industry, as Delta Air Lines Inc. bought
Northwest Airlines Corp. in 2008 and UAL Corp.'s United Airlines agreed
in May to combine with Continental Airlines Inc.

Roger Frizzell, an AMR spokesman, declined to comment.

In June, Emirates ordered 32 additional Airbus SAS A380s
valued at $11 billion in an order that would give the 25-year- old
company 70 more superjumbos than any other airline, funneling
price-sensitive passengers through its Dubai base in a challenge to
network carriers including Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France-KLM Group
and Singapore Airlines Ltd.

Emirates ranked only 24th among international airlines
as recently as 2000, putting it on a par with Sabena SA, the state-
owned Belgian carrier that went bust a year later.

In the intervening period the Gulf carrier has achieved a
sixfold increase in traffic, overtaking Lufthansa last year to become
the biggest carrier on international flights, according to the
International Air Transport Association, which counts Air France and KLM
as two airlines.

"You've got to be careful of market speculation but it's flattering that people are talking about us," Clark said.

JPRS

Bonjour!

J'ajoute que, pour Emirates ...

Toutes les prises de participation, qui pourraient se faire avec qq $$$$ et une poignée de A380 à la clef (Pas payés trop cher)
Eh bien, cela peut être bigrement attractif, si la cible possède des routes pour les utiliser ces A380 ...
Peut être bien, le fond de la stratégie de EK !
QQ paquets de $$$$ et qq A380, comme teasing !
Et hop, on prend une bonne participation !
J'ajoute, que trouver slots et accords de trafique pour la flotte qu'ils sont en train d'acheter, me paraît des plus diffile, voir improbable !
Donc un plan B en marche, les prises de participation ...

Ce n'est pas idiot, du tout !

JPRS

Emirates : le chiffre d'affaires bondit de plus de 58% sur 5 mois en France

La compagnie de Dubaï, Emirates, a vu son chiffre d'affaires bondir de plus de 58% en France sur les 5 premiers mois de l'exercice sous l'effet d'une hausse des capacités combinée à une forte reprise du trafic affaires, a annoncé mardi à l'AFP son directeur général France.

http://www.boursorama.com/international/detail_actu_intern.phtml?num=98871d15214b74022ffbd47d8bf0712f

Merci Art-Way !
C'est AF qui va être content !
Merci les A380 aussi !

Bonsoir à tous
Un lien vers une analyse exhaustive du fonctionnement d'EK (dessertes ./ flottes
In english

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/4939112
Bonne lecture

Bonjour !

Et Tim Clark, de Emirates ne peut rester muet dans le concert !

120 A380 dés qu'il aura la place (Et des routes??)
Une discussion avec Boeing pour un 777 NEO ou NG qq part mais toujours 777 ! (Tiens, il n'a pas écouté SUH celui là ??)

------------------ L'article Reuters ------------------

Emirates eyes 120 A380s, works with Boeing on 7

DUBAI | Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:56am EDT MIRA.UL],the Arab world's largest airline, aims to have 120 Airbus(EAD.PA) A380s when new airport space is available and is working with Boeing (BA.N) on the next generation of 777 jets.

Emirates, whose passengers are growing at 20 percent annually and expects to maintain this level for the next five years, will fulfill all its 90 orders so far for the A380 superjumbo, President Tim Clark told Reuters in an interview. "We would like some more but we are going to run short of space," he said. "
120 was the baseline figure that the planners worked to get where we needed to be, but we couldn't order that amount because it was too many for here so 90 was a compromise.
" The carrier will order more when it gets additional space at its home base in Dubai, he added.

The target implies a future Emirates order for 30 of the world's largest airliner, worth $10 billion at list prices, at an unspecified date. If the airline went ahead with its growth plans it would have an A380 fleet worth over $40 billion.

Emirates, already by far the biggest customer for A380, announced a record $11 billion order for 32 superjumbos at the Berlin Air Show in June.
At July's Farnborough Air Show, Emirates also ordered 30 Boeing (BA.N) 777-300ER wide-body planes, a deal worth potentially more than $9 billion. [IDWEA0008]

Clark said the airline is collaborating with Boeing to find a solution for the manufacturer's wide-body 777 aircraft, but said he could not share more details. "We are working with Boeing on the next generation of 777.
We are still very interested in a replacement," he said. Boeing has said it is looking at the future of the aircraft which faces competition from the future Airbus A350-1000. (Reporting by Tamara Walid; Editing by Tim Hepher)

JPRS

La politique de flotte d'Emirates semble claire
-des A 380 en nombre pour les routes à forte densité et avec créneaux restreints.
-des 777 pour les routes moins denses avec la possibilité intéressante du 10 de front.
-des A 350 pour les routes longues et avec un grand confort en 9 de front.
donc avec 3 modèles ils font leur beurre.
Et ça me paraît logique qu'ils partagent entre A et B.

Quasiment toutes les liaisons avec l'Europe sont rentables pour Emirates :

L'Europe représente près de 30% du chiffre d'affaires d'Emirates Airlines, a indiqué mercredi le directeur général en charge de la France, soulignant que les dessertes de ce continent étaient quasiment toutes rentables.

http://www.boursorama.com/infos/actualites/detail_actu_societes.phtml?num=5833e1d7a097da72e5e5b19a84945747

Panne moteur dans le ciel allemand pour un A380 d’Emirates

Un A380 d’Emirates parti de Manchester et à destination de Dubaï a connu une panne de l’un de ses quatre réacteurs, obligeant le pilote à perdre de l’altitude. Le vol s’est poursui sans encombre et sans danger pour les passagers jusqu’à Dubaï.

Après l’explosion d’un moteur d’un A380 de Qantas, le moindre incident sur un SuperJumbo est examiné à la loupe.
L’A380-800 d’Emirates de Manchester pour Dubaï était au-dessus du territoire allemand quand une panne sur l’un de ses quatre moteurs est intervenue. Les pilotes ont jugé que le vol pouvait continuer sans encombre jusqu’à sa destination finale, prenant simplement la précaution de changer d’altitude.
L’avion est finalement arrivé à Dubaï avec une heure de retard par rapport à l’heure prévue. Un porte-parole d’Emirates a confirmé l’incident, précisant qu’à aucun moment, la sécurité des passagers n’a été en péril.
Les 13 SuperJumbos d’Emirates sont équipés de réacteurs Engine Alliance GP7200 (comme Air France) et non des moteurs Rolls Royce Trent 900, responsables de la grave avarie survenue sur un A380 de la compagnie australienne Qantas.

Emirates, avec 90 appareils A380 est le principal client d’Airbus sur ce segment des très gros porteurs.

http://www.air-journal.fr/2010-11-21-panne-moteur-dans-le-ciel-allemand-pour-a380-demirates-517906.html

Et qu'avait il ce moteur (GP7200)??
Longtemps immobilisé à Dubaï ?
J'ai cherché et ...rien trouvé sauf sur Crash !
------------
Un porte parole de la compagnie a confirmé l'incident en rajoutant que l'avion a eu une panne d'une pompe carburant et qu'en aucun moment la sécurité des passagers et de l'équipage n'a été compromise et que le vol a atterri à DXB avec une heure de retard par rapport à l'horaire prévu.

--------- Pas vraiment une panne moteur, une pompe (Réservoir ?) ----------

http://www.crash-aerien.aero/forum/panne-moteur-d-un-a380-emirates-au-dessus-de-l-allemagne-t17219.html


JPRS

Bonjour !

Tim Clark en remet une couche !
Les Australiens, bien sur toujours à l'affut de ce qui va loin ... normal !

Des 77W plus légers ...
Des 350-1000 plus gros et plus capables !
Bien, la shopping list de Tim Clark, le beurre et l'argent du beurre ...comme d'hab!
Mais sur le fond, le T.C;, il est bien informé des développements "Faisables", ou plus difficiles!
Par contre, même le plus gros client du monde, pour ce type d'avion, ne peut pas prétendre au "Sur mesure" non plus !

RR à bout de souffle pour les TXWB du 350-1000, ils n'iront pas beaucoup plus haut, et Airbus non plus à part un très hypothétique 350-1000 ER!

Et Boeing, pour un 777 NG, devra aussi trouver des solutions "Economiques"avant de refaire vraiment un autre avion !
D'aprés A.net, 5 Tonnes, pour le 777 ce serait plus factible que 10 tonnes de moins, Al-Li à la vista, et une aile neuve ... bien, peut être, on verra !
Et GE, avec son 90-115, bof ... à revoir profondément aussi, côté SFC !

Des perspectives c'est normal, ...mais bien après 2016, 2018 peut être ... ou même plus !
Le droit de rêver et de planifier qq temps, T.C. est prudent ... de la place pour A et B ! On s'en serait douté !

---------- Va pour l'Article de Bloomberg / SMH Australie -------

http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/emirates-asks-airbus-for-longerrange-a350-20101125-18847.html

Emirates, the world's biggest airline by international traffic, urged Airbus SAS to boost the range of the biggest version of its new A350 wide-body plane as Boeing ponders a redesign of the competing 777 model.

Emirates, whose outstanding orders for the 777 will make it the twin-jet's biggest user, needs higher-capacity aircraft for its longest intercontinental routes, Tim Clark, the Dubai-based airline's president, said today in an interview in Paris.

Clark has ordered 20 350-seat A350-1000s, a model he says can't reach Los Angeles from Dubai in the three-class layout that Emirates prefers. The Boeing planes that it currently uses on the route are based on a less efficient 20-year-old design, with the 354-seat 777-300ER at the limits of its range, curbing the payload, and the 777-200LR limited to 266 people.

"We're finding that the smallest aircraft that's useful to us needs to be 340 seats," Clark said. "We're trying to persuade Airbus to realign the A350-1000 more toward the ER, increasing both its capacity and its range."

With the A350-1000 still undergoing development and not due for delivery to Emirates until 2015, Toulouse, France-based Airbus may still be able to reconfigure elements of the design. Airbus spokesman Stefan Schaffrath declined to comment today.

Emirates has ordered a total of 70 A350s, including 50 of the -900 variant, which can fly 200 miles further than the -1000 but which carries only 300 people in the three-class configuration. The biggest Arab airline also has options on an additional 50 A350s and signed a letter of intent firming up 30 of those in 2008.

777 Revamp

Clark said Emirates is equally interested in a new 777 if Boeing revamps the model enough to deliver significant savings.

With its 787 Dreamliner yet to enter service, Boeing plans to decide next year whether to commit to a full redesign for the 777 or build a new wing to boost performance, something the Chicago-based manufacturer began discussing in June 2009.

"We would like to see an aircraft that's lighter, with or without composites, and more fuel efficient," Clark said, adding that the plane would need to fly from Dubai to Los Angeles in 16 1/2 hours with a payload of 35 to 40 metric tons, compared with a maximum 30 tons today. "It's a big ask. In the end they'll come up with something, but I doubt they'll quite achieve that."

'Room for Both'

Clark said Emirates may place more orders for both the A350 and the 777 for use on its longest routes if the competing aircraft are developed to its satisfaction.

"There's room for both planes, quite frankly," he said.

For Boeing, a revamped or all-new 777 would fill a gap in its lineup above the 290-seat Dreamliner. Emirates has about 90 777s in operation or on order, making it the model's top user.

Boeing is regularly seeking the input of Emirates and other customers and has the time "to make the right product decisions" that are aligned with available technologies and airlines' needs, said Jim Proulx, a spokesman in Seattle, home to the company's commercial headquarters.

"We are committed to maintaining our leadership in this segment and providing customers a product offering to do that for another 20 years or longer, whether it is a 777 derivative or possible new airplane," Proulx said.

Airbus's A380 superjumbo may also feature in Emirates' reckoning on very-long-haul flights as the aircraft's weight is gradually reduced, Clark said. The Dubai-Los Angeles route is within the model's range, according to the Airbus Website.

Emirates will introduce the A380 to Tokyo's Narita airport as soon as next September, when it begins taking the next batch of six to nine jets, due for delivery through March 2012, the CEO said. That will take the fleet to between 21 and 24 planes.

Bookings remain "very strong" on routes already served by the A380 and show no sign of suffering from the Nov. 4 engine blowout on a Qantas Airways Ltd. plane powered by Rolls-Royce Group Plc turbines. Emirates' superjumbos are equipped with engines from a General Electric Co.-Pratt & Whitney venture.

Bloomberg

JPRS

Emirates trouve le 350-900 trop petit pour son business plan.
C'est très bien pour le 350-1000, par contre la pression est mise sur Airbus et RR.
Mais bon Tim Clark aime bien la provoc'

Emirates looking at skipping A350-900 for -1000
By Brendan Sobie

Emirates is considering swapping its order for 50 Airbus A350-900s to A350-1000s as Airbus works on finalising design of the stretched variant.

In November 2007, the carrier ordered 70 A350 XWBs, initially specifying 50 of the baseline -900s and 20 -1000s. But Emirates president Tim Clark says over the last three years the carrier's network has matured to the point where it "can no longer tolerate anything under 300" seats.

Emirates is slated to take 290-seat A350-900s from April 2015. The A350-1000s would be a better fit, but the longer wait must also be considered.

"It [the -900] is now appearing too small," says Clark. "So we may slip the order to the -1000, but the -1000 hasn't been frozen yet. We haven't decided quite yet which one we'll take. We're actually playing around with how this order fits."

The A350-900 is scheduled to enter service in 2013, while Airbus has provided a 2015 entry into service date for -1000 stretch. Clark says the only option if Emirates wants to take A350s in 2015 is to stick with the -900.

Delivery dates for the A350-1000 are not likely to be firmed up until the design is frozen, which could take time as airlines continue to press Airbus for changes. Clark says with the current design the -1000 will not have a range or payload comparable to the Boeing 777-300ER.

"Airbus compares the -1000 to the 777-300ER. I've told them in no uncertain terms it does not. I see it as a 320-, 330-seater which will be very economical on missions up to 10 or 12 hours," he says. "The notion that it would fly from Singapore to European gateways in the winter months with 100 knots on the nose is a bit of an ask. We've suggested they need to come to grips with that, which means they need to increase the takeoff weight and they need to increase propulsion."

The aircraft is slated to be powered by Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines but Clark is "not sure they will do the job".

If its -900s are delayed beyond 2015 or it elects to wait for the -1000, Emirates can avail of the "safety net" of 30 additional 777-300ERs ordered last year. The airline's original thinking was for the A350-900s to replace its 777-200s, A330-200s and A340-300s, but it has the flexibility to retain these aircraft for longer.

In 2007 the airline ordered 70 A350 XWBs: 50 -900s and 20 -1000s

Merci Art-Way, désolé j'ai fait un doublon!

Ca ressemble à un encouragement à RR et Airbus: "si vous travaillez bien, je vous le prend votre oiseau".

L'oiseau, il est acheté ... formellement !
50 359, 20 3510, plus 50 options !
Mais les discussions ne sont pas terminées .., et avec ces commandes en cours, ben ça donne le droit de parler ...
Et des swap 350- 900-1000, doivent être en évaluation !

JPRS

Bonjour

Ca va mieux pour l'A380... chez EK

http://atwonline.com/news/other-headlines/

Emirates' A380 fleet achieved 100% dispatch reliability last week
By: Kurt Hofmann
Emirates Airline President Tim Clark told ATW at ITB Berlin that all 15 of the airline's Airbus A380s operated for the first time with 100% technical dispatch reliability last week. "We have some hiccups sometimes [with the A380 operation] but the reliability is going up," he said. When EK's first A380 arrived about 220 post-factory modifications had to be made. "Today the number is about 60," he said.

Beginning this fall, delivery of its remaining 75 A380s begins at a rate of at least one aircraft per month. "It will start to get really busy," Clark said, but he added that every EK area manager is requesting the A380 and that EK could put the aircraft on daily service to every European point it serves without losing money because demand is so strong and customers still look to fly on the A380 if the option is there.

Asked how long it takes for a new route to be profitable, Clark said, "I get very upset if they are not in profit after 20 rotations. Ninety percent of new routes [achieve] this target." He expects the airline to hire 4,000 new flight attendants this year and carry 32 million passengers, up from 27.5 million last year.

Bonjour !

Pour Emirates tout va bien !
Pas d'IPO à la vista !
Des cdes cete année, oui ! Mais au salon de Dubaï !

---------- De AviationWeek le lien ------------------

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/awx/2011/05/10/awx_05_10_2011_p0-320770.xml&headline=Emirates%20plans%20No%20IPO,%20But%20More%20Orders&channel=comm

JPRS

Bonjour !

Je le passe sous Emirates ...

L'Australie qui arrive à héberger déjà 70 fréquences par semaine de EK, s'apprête à en recevoir une centaine !
Panique pour les cies locales, Qantas en tête !
Comment arrêter ce qui ressemble de plus en plus à une invasion irrésistible !

---------De Will Horton, dans son blog de FlightGlobal , le lien !-------------------

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/wings-down-under/2011/05/what-australian-aviation-might-look-like-when-emirates-operates-100-oz-flights-a-week.html

Et Virgin Australia réagit à travers des Alliances ...avec Delta !

----------- Par Ben Sandilands , Crickey , le lien -----------

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/

JPRS

Super merci

Moi je note : AirnNew Zealand qui se positionne pour le marché Asie / Amérique du sud... belle ambition

Pekin Santiago : 10271 NM
Pekin Sao Paulo : 9500 NM (route directe à travers vol vers l'ouest)

Via aukland toutes les distances se réduisent à moins de 6500 Nm

Bonjour !

Superbe reportage photo, sur le A380 de EK !
A voir, c'est rarement aussi détaillé !

http://www.yossawat.com/2011/07/emirates-airbus-380-interior-5-star-hotel-on-wings/

Bonjour à tous

http://atwonline.com/aircraft-engines-components/news/emirates-clark-would-even-more-a380s-space-limited-0804

Emirates Airline President Tim Clark told ATW in Vienna that the performance of the carrier's Airbus A380s continues to improve, noting that its 15-aircraft fleet achieved 99% reliability performance last week.

From September through November 2017, a further 75 A380s will be delivered to the Dubai-based airline, and Clark said he would ultimately prefer an operating fleet of more than 90 of the extra-large aircraft. "If we could, but we can't," he elaborated. "Because by 2017, our first A380, 'Delta-Alpha,' which we put in service in 2008 … is then nine years old and three years after that we replace her. Unfortunately, many of our ordered A380s are planned as replacement aircraft. That's what we will do: 12 years [in service] and out [of the fleet] and then we buy more."

One reason the fleet has to be capped, he explained, is "real estate" at Dubai International to park and maintain the aircraft. Currently, EK dedicates 85% of its A380 flying to relatively short-haul routes. "So long as EK is flying to places like Munich, Rome, etc. and back to DXB in 14 hr. rotation—that brings the aircraft back far more [often] then you theoretically like," he noted. "If the A380 is flying to the US West Coast … this is a 35 hr. mission and you keep [the aircraft] away from DXB longer. Then the pressure of real estate at DXB is [lessened] … You have to make [the long-haul/short-haul ratio] 25% and 75%. If you do that, then you could bring in more A380s."

Even though longer-haul flying will comprise a minority of EK's A380 flights, it plans to dispatch the aircraft all over the world. But there is not always room for the A380 at various airports. For example, EK had planned to operate an A380 on the DXB-Sao Paolo route, but there was no space at the Brazilian airport to park the aircraft during a 6-hr. layover. "We're working on it," Clark said.

EK's newest A380 destination will be Munich, scheduled to start by the end of October, followed with Kuala Lumpur and Rome.

Clark tjs content de ces A380 ...
Il en veut tjs plus mais pb de places à dubai lié notamment au fait que les A380 font pas mal de moyen courrier avec temps de stationnement relativement long

Fin de la première commande en 2017
Et comme EK garde ses avions 12 ans on va trouver des A380 EK sur le marché en 2020
Conséquence :

- le plus fidèle client de l'A380 devrait placer une nouvelle commande d'A380 pour livraison à partir de 2020 ce qui est un timing idéal pour une évolution (mineure / majeure ?), et peut-être le fameux A380-800R ou A380-900 ?
- Des A380 vont apparaître en occasion vers 2020 également -> programme P2F ? ou alors de cies charter vont les prendre en charge
On saura en 2020 si le marché des A380 usagés existe.

Je pense que d'ici 2020 le marché de l'occasion pour l'A380 se sera éveloppé.

Surtout en Asie où des compagnies en auront besoin pour faire des vols pas très longs.

Salut Aerodu05

Il va être intéressant de connaître le potentiel de la cellule... parce que les vols de 2-3 h vont entraîner une rapide accumulation des cycles

La compagnie aérienne de Dubaï a annoncé l’augmentation de ses vols vers le Japon avec deux vols directs supplémentaires sans escale verts Tokyo-Narita à partir du 1er novembre.

Les vols supplémentaires partiront les mardi et mercredi de Dubaï à
2h50 pour atterrir sur l’aéroport de Tokyo-Narita à 17h35, le retour
décollant du Japon à 22 heures pour arriver à 3h50 du matin le jour
suivant. Le nouveau service autorise des correspondances pratiques vers tout le réseau d’Emirates, en Europe, Moyen-Orient, Afrique ou Amérique du Sud. Les vols seront opérés en Boeing 777-300ER
configurés en 8 sièges Première, 42 sièges en affaire et 304 en classe
économique, soit 352 places au total, auquel on peut ajouter le
transport de marchandises (composants électroniques et automobile…) pour
23 tonnes.
Emirates vole depuis son hub de Dubaï vers Tokyo depuis le 28 mars 2010
cinq fois par semaine (les lundi, jeudi, vendredi, samedi et dimanche). «
La demande continue d’être forte depuis que nous l’avons lancée l’année
dernière », a expliqué Emirates.
Depuis 2002, Emirates a transporté 1,3 million de personnes au Japon et 60 000 tonnes de marchandises.
http://www.air-journal.fr/2011-08-26-emirates-vole-tous-les-jours-vers-tokyo-narita-535073.html

Bon

L'A350-1000 revient au centre du débat
T Clark estime avoir été mis devant le fait accompli et avoir perdu de la communalité ...

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2011/09/09/361827/emirates-chief-hits-out-over-a350-1000-revamp.html

Emirates president Tim Clark has reacted angrily to Airbus's plan to revamp the A350-1000.
The airframer revealed a revised specification for its largest A350 variant at the Paris air show, which will result in a two-year delay.
It centres on a modified, more powerful variant of the Trent XWB engine, along with increased weights.
The move sparked an angry response from A350-1000 launch customer Qatar Airways, with chief executive Akbar Al Baker expressing his displeasure during the show.
While Airbus's official line was the revisions had been introduced to boost payload and range, ­industry sources have speculated there may also have been a need to address weight or performance issues that had emerged with the original design.
Clark said the revisions were implemented without any dialogue: "If they had talked to me, I would have said: '[The improvement is] not good enough'," he added.
Although Emirates has only 20 A350-1000s on order, it had been considering switching its 50 -900 orders to the -1000. However, this is unlikely following the revisions.
"On paper, the old -1000 was hugely economical - it was a 777-300 classic replacement," Clark said. "That's why I talked about ­converting my -900 orders." He added the decision to revamp the A350-1000's engine by incorporating a new core has had an impact on commonality. "I had 70 aircraft with the same engine. I don't have that any more," he said

Il se disait donc content de la version initiale !

Il commence à gonfler le monde.

C'est bien beau de faire un avion pour les compagnies du Golfe mais si elles en commandent une centaine ou deux ce sera le maximum.

Par contre si ça fait perdre d'autres clients, il faut peut-être s'interroger.

Bonjour à tous

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2011/09/29/so-now-we-know-what-emirates-is-going-to-do-with-all-those-a380s/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CrikeyBlogs%2Fplanetalking+%28Plane+Talking%29

The actual announcement from Emirates was modest by its standards. It would start daily Dubai-Dallas Fort Worth flights on 2 February and daily services to Seattle from 1 March, both initially with either Boeing 777-300ERs or -200LRs. It already has A380s and 777s to New York City, and other 777s to San Francisco and Los Angeles.

But it is what Clark said in supporting interviews that grabbed the US headlines. From 2013 it can start replacing 777s with A380s to California because of further improvements to the big Airbus in terms of range and payload, and based on demand, growth and the fact that it makes money out of every flight why wouldn’t it use the cost advantage of the giant Airbus against its competitors.

Clark’s comments help us understand what Emirates plans to do with up to 90 A380s, bearing in mind that some of that total order book is for replacing the early A380s, as this is an airline with a fleet that has a unit average age of six years and two months.

et

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204226204576598784014855762.html?mod=googlenews_wsj



Déploiement massif d'EK sur les etats unis, dans un premier temps avec des triple 7, puis avec des A380 en 2013 avec cette fameuse version optimisée de l'A380-800 qui fera DXB-LAX à pleine charge PAX

EK content de l'A380, vraiment content en fait

Bonjour !

Une longue interwiew de Tim Clark, EK, chez FlightGlobal ! Il existe des versions video !
Intéressant et à lire !

Noté , le refus des Alliances, liberté absolue !
Et une obligation de cie "Mondiale" induite !
Pas d'intérêt pour racheter des Airlines ! Niet pour BMI !

Son rêve ...
Un Bi avec 50T de charge pour DBX - LAX !
Ben ça n'existe pas et ce n'est pas pour demain ...
Manquerait 13 tonnes aux 77-300ER !
Et l'A350 sera loin ...


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Alliance Agenda

However, one aspect of modern competition he cannot abide are the
global alliances, whose behaviour he likens to global “gang warfare”,
threatening to stifle competition and prevent it being nurtured. “I’m so
opposed to alliances because I believe they distort and channel and
direct for the greater good of the alliance thing, rather than the
consumers that are driving it all.” Clark says the alliances –
particularly Star – have created “a fairly difficult, vicious structure
internationally” and is concerned about how much of a threat Emirates is
perceived to be. “We have learnt that we are considered to be the
single largest threat to the Star Alliance group on the Planet today.
While I’m hugely flattered by this, it is also a worry because it
shouldn’t be that. There is actually room for us and our way of doing
things, and the way they do. I don’t spend my time trying to take down
Star Alliance. I’d rather work with all these airlines on an independent
basis, and that’s what we do. Because I’ll always give business to the
partners that we have relationships with.”

Emirates recently published a paper entitled Aviation at the
Crossroads – Safeguarding Competition and Consumer Choice, in which it
highlights recent tactics by the alliances that create a “join or
perish” commercial incentive for non-aligned airlines. “The emergence of
three mega-alliances presents public policy concerns that merit careful
attention”, and could “harm consumers”, Emirates says in the paper.

Unsurprisingly, Clark says the thought of joining an alliance is
“anathema” to Emirates. “There’s no point in even going there. You must
have total command and control of what you do. You can’t allow yourself
to be subjected to the whims of an amorphous board, like the Star
Alliance, saying ‘you can’t do this, you can’t do that; you’ve got to
buy this aeroplane; you’ve got to fly this route’. Not in the world as
it is today. We want to move rapidly where we have opportunities, for
example, to second or third-level airports. I don’t want to be told ‘you
can’t go to that hub; I’m going there so you feed me’. Forget it.”

This sort of independent thinking has been central to Emirates’ early
and continued success. “When the global economy took off, because we
were totally focused on what we do, because we were not
alliance-affiliated, we had nobody else to answer to and we did things
the way we wanted to. We recognised in the mid-1990s that the world was
changing rapidly and we had to adapt our business. We exploded the
growth of Emirates, took on huge numbers of orders that shook the
industry. We did that because we could see [demand for air travel] was
going bananas.”

Fleet Forward

By comparison with the Emirates buying frenzy last year – that saw it
order another 32 A380s and 30 777-300ERs – this year has been fairly
quiet for the airline, so far. However, Clark already has his eyes on
the next potential acquisition – a successor for the airline’s huge
fleet of 777-300ERs.

His deep understanding of aircraft performance means he was never
slow in getting stuck in with the design teams in Toulouse and Seattle
as they developed their recent large widebody types. It is no different
now. Clark has been quick to express his displeasure at the way Airbus
has messed around with the design of the A350-1000 – for which he holds
20 orders and could potentially take more if the aircraft’s
specifications meet Emirates requirements – and is pushing Boeing as it
develops a 777-300ER successor, with the view to being a potential
launch customer.

Airbus unveiled a revised specification for the largest A350 variant
at the Paris air show in June, along with a two-year delay to service
entry from 2015 to 2017. The changes centre on a modified, more powerful
variant of the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engine, along with increased
weights to provide additional range capability. But Clark is not happy
the revisions were implemented without any dialogue with Emirates. “If
they had talked to me, I would have said: ‘[The improvement is] not good
enough’,” he says.

“On paper, the old -1000 was hugely economical – it was a 777-300
classic replacement. That’s why I talked about ­converting my -900
orders.” But that possibility has dimmed with the changes, and Clark
hopes Airbus’s US rival could hold the answer. “There’s a lot of work
going on [at Boeing on the new 777], and we’re involved in it.”

Clark has informed Boeing that Emirates needs a twinjet capable of
flying a 50-tonne payload – by its rules – between Dubai and Los
Angeles. Today that route is operated by a 777-300ER, with a payload of
about 35-37 tonnes. “I keep telling Lars Anderson [head of Boeing’s 777
Advanced Product Development team] that I’m already flying the -300ER
there, so give me an aeroplane that can do it reasonably so I’m not
shedding payload to get us there,” he says.

JPRS