Dubai: Emirates airline has ordered a jaw-dropping 245 new wide-bodied planes, but the company's president shuns suggestions that he wants to create the world's biggest airline.
"I'm not bothered personally if that makes us the biggest or not," Emirates president Tim Clark said in an interview with the Associated Press.
Aviation analysts say that in fact the airline's unprecedented rate of growth would make it the world's largest within the next decade.
At last month's Dubai Air Show, Emirates ordered 120 Airbus A350XWB jets, 11 additional A380 super-jumbos - increasing its total order to 58 - and a dozen Boeing 777-300ERs - which more than double its current fleet of 112 planes.
The orders, amounting to $34.9 billion at list price, bring the value of the airline's total order book to an unheard of $60 billion. |
