Emirates has received its 50th A380 aircraft, strengthening its position as the world’s largest international airline.

This latest delivery takes Emirates’ all wide-body fleet to 224 aircraft, representing the world’s largest fleet of A380s, and also the world’s largest fleet of Boeing 777s.

After the entry of its 50th A380 aircraft into service by early August, Emirates will offer on a weekly basis a total of 5.7 billion available seat kilometres to 145 destinations which span the globe from Los Angeles to Auckland.

Since April 2010, Emirates has received 96 aircraft (all A380s and Boeing 777s, while consistently maintaining seat load factors of close to 80 per cent. During this period, Emirates also added 48 cities to its global destination network.

Emirates has the biggest A380 route network of any commercial airline, currently serving 27 airports on five continents. Its Dubai-Los Angeles route is the world’s longest A380 flight in operation. By the end of this year, the number of destinations served by an Emirates A380 will increase to 33.

Emirates currently has over 10,000 cabin crew and 900 flight deck crew specially trained to operate its growing A380 fleet.

Emirates has 299 wide-body aircraft on its order book, including 90 more A380s. Many of these new jets have been earmarked to replace the older aircraft in Emirates’ current fleet.

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