Emirates ordering spree!

50 x Airbus A380 - £14bn
150 x Boeing 777X - £47bn

[Darren Wheeler]

In other news, price of crude oil up again :w

Same story...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-16/emirates-said-in-talks-to-order-50-airbus-a380-superjumbos-1-.html

but also ... Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. has said it can’t be sure to take any of its six A380s on order...

Think they have their sights set on world domination!!

I read that 80% of the earths population lives within a 6/7 hour flight of Dubai. Much of this % is going to attain a growing amount of wealth in the next 50 years as economies develop.

Sounds like EK are on to a long-term winner I'd say.

Good god, 200 planes, 50 massive. They seem to definitely going for world domination.

EY order was not small either.

25 777X
30 787
50 A350
36 A320neo

Makes them the largest 787 in the world.

Plus there is also the EY Regional plan as well.

No doubt that both EK are clearly set on world domination with EY not too far behind.

Coupled with the expansion of QR and TK (who have made a very impressive network in the last couple of years) it is clear that this part of the world is going to be the force in aviation over the next 10 years or so, in much the same way that SQ/CX were the force in the 90's.

Hmmm, what would I do with £61bn .... ): ):