Emirates mulls jets for up to 800 passengers

Dubai’s Emirates Airline, the world’s largest operator of Airbus A380 double-decker superjumbos, would be interested in buying even bigger aircraft capable of carrying up to 800 passengers, a senior executive revealed, but conceded manufacturers were a decade away from developing such technology. “I think there is no doubt about it, there will be more demand for higher-capacity aircraft, purely driven by the capacity and congestion you have at airports and airspace,” Adel Al Redha, executive vice president of engineering and operations at Emirates said. Emirates has in its fleet 26 517-passenger A380s in service and a further 64 on order and Al Redha said the carrier would be interested in larger aircraft. From Gulf Today