Emirates cancel A380 Bangkok service till late-May 10 | Airline Route
May 20, 2010
Emirates cancel A380 Bangkok service till late-May 10
Not putting on a Q flight - swapping for B777s
Emirates cancel A380 New York service
Numbers down on A380 Emirates cancels NY service All the latest travel news EMIRATES have been forced to ground two Airbus A380s from its Dubai-New York service because of poor passenger numbers.
The airline said the two double-decker Airbus A380s will be replaced with Boeing 777s amid the global economic downturn.
"Effective June 1st, two of Emirates' Airbus A380 aircraft, currently operating on one of the two daily Dubai-New York JFK services, will be redeployed to the three-times weekly Dubai-Toronto service and to one of the two daily Dubai-Bangkok services," the airline said in a statement.
The turnaround comes less than eight months after Emirates unveiled the wide-body superjumbo in the US to a fanfare reception.
"As the global economy has affected international air travel, this aircraft redeployment was based solely on a change in capacity demands in these three markets," a spokesman for the Dubai-based carrier said.
"The A380 will be replaced by Boeing's B777-300ER" on the New York service and Emirates would evaluate the A380 for it again "when economic conditions improve."