Instead, Emirates, long accused of taking massive government subsidies, has been said to use the A380 to offer low fares, like the current $454 Newark-to-Athens round-trip offer.

But with Emirates Airlines once again flying its 500-seat A380 super jumbo jets, perhaps the pandemic has reached manageable proportions. Or as Winston Churchill put it in a different context ...

The boss of Emirates thinks Airbus should make a new version of the double-decker A380. Tim Clark suggested new, lighter materials and more-fuel-efficient engines could make it more viable. "If we ...

As airlines around the world ground their Airbus A380 fleets during the coronavirus pandemic — some permanently — one airline stands in stark contrast: Emirates. With a price tag of $445.6 ...

As a result of the Emirates order, "we have no substantial A380 backlog and hence no basis to sustain production, despite all our sales efforts with other airlines in recent years," Airbus CEO Tom ...

Emirates may have just saved the Airbus A380. The Dubai-based carrier announced Thursday that it has ordered 20 of the superjumbo jets, with an option to buy 16 more. The deal is worth a total of ...

The 50th A380 was received in July 2014 and the following year Emirates raised the capacity stakes when it introduced its first two-class superjumbo, equipped with 615 seats.