Emirates Gives Up on A380Neo, Pushes for Superjumbos
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An Emirates Airline Airbus A380.
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Emirates, the largest operator of Airbus Group SE’s A380 superjumbo, has all but given up on getting an upgrade of the double-decker with new engines and is instead making a more modest pitch to the planemaker: please don’t drop the program altogether.
“I can’t force Toulouse to do anything,” Emirates President Tim Clark told reporters on Friday at a briefing in Dublin, referring to Airbus’s home base in southern France. “My main concern is that they stop producing the plane.”