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Emirates Airlines had
become one of the world's fastest growing
airlines by the early 1990s. Revenues increased
by about $100 million each year, approaching
$500 million in the year 1993. It carried 68,000
tons of cargo and 1.6 million passengers in the
same year.
Emirates Airlines operates a
mixed fleet of Airbus and Boeing wide-body
aircraft and is one of only nine airlines to
operate an all wide-body aircraft fleet. The
centrepiece of the airline's fleet is the Boeing
777. Emirates also has orders for 80 Airbus
A380s with 10 already in service and became the
second operator of the Airbus A380-800 after
Singapore Airlines when their first aircraft was
delivered on 28 July 2008. Emirates Airlines
has won numerous awards and is an industry
bellwether for aircraft purchases, purchasing
over 130 aircraft in 2007 alone.
The Emirates airlines
ranks amongst the top 10 carriers worldwide in
terms of revenue, passenger kilometres, and has
become the largest airline in the Middle East in
terms of revenue, fleet size, and passengers
carried as of 2007. In 2009 the airline was the
seventh-largest airline in the world in terms of
international passengers carried, and
fourth-largest in the world in terms of
scheduled international passenger-kilometres
flown.
Emirates Airlines has
built up a strong brand name as a trendsetter in
the aviation industry, particularly in terms of
service excellence, coupled with consistent
profitability. In 2010, Emirates was voted the
eighth best airline in the world by research
consultancy firm Skytrax.
Dubai International Airport's
Terminal 3 was built exclusively for the use of
Emirates at a cost of $4.5 billion and
officially opened 14 October 2008. Terminal 3 is
the largest building in the world by floor
space, with over 1,500,000 m2 (370 acres) of
space. The Terminal has annual capacity of 27
million passengers, and with the expansion of
Concourse 3, will have an annual capacity of 43
million passengers by 2011, once concourse 3 is
complete. The new concourse 3 will be
exclusively for the A380- 800.
Emirates Airlines
In-flight Communications: Phone, SMS and email
from your seat, or call friends and family
seated elsewhere on the aircraft.
Emirates Airlines In-flight
Entertainment: Over 1200 channels of premium
entertainment to keep you busy during the
flight. The latest and best movies, television,
audio and games from around the world.
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