Dubai-based airline Emirates will receive its second Airbus A380 on Oct. 24, around two months later than originally planned, the company’s president said on Thursday.
Speaking during a tour of Dubai International Airport’s new Terminal 3, Tim Clark said Emirates would receive its second superjumbo at the end of this month, followed by three more in late January and February.
Clark said the second A380 would be used to take its Dubai-New York service daily, while the three other planes would be used on its London, Sydney and Auckland routes.
Emirates, the Middle East’s biggest airline, put its first A380 into service on Aug. 1 with a direct flight from Dubai to New York.
Emirates, with 58 firm orders for the A380 out of a total 198 from manufacturer EADS, is the biggest customer for the delay-plagued European plane and is the second client to take delivery after Singapore Airlines, which already has five.
The French weekly Journal du Dimanche reported last month that Emirates would not receive the second A380 on order before the end of October,
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