Economics
Emirates Rethinks Its Network for a World Without the A380
- Review has been underway for nine months, Chief Clark says
- Routes ‘under microscope’ amid fleet shuffle, slower growth
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Emirates, the world’s biggest long-haul airline, is reviewing its route network as it grapples with slowing economic growth and the demise of the A380 superjumbo, a plane that’s been the cornerstone of its strategic thinking for almost two decades.
Dubai-based Emirates has spent the past nine months “knocking down the network” to establish the optimum route profile both for itself and for the sheikdom, and is now close to the end of that exercise, President Tim Clark said at the 2019 Arabian Travel Market convention on Monday.