{"id":343536,"date":"2026-01-06T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/emirates-order-airbus-a350-replace-a380s\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T09:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:00:17","slug":"did-emirates-order-the-airbus-a350-to-replace-its-a380s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=343536","title":{"rendered":"Did Emirates Order The Airbus A350 To Replace Its A380s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"86730\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/emirates\/\"  >Emirates<\/a><\/span> operates <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2046925\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/emirates-aircraft-fleet-2025\/\" >the largest fleet of two of the world&#8217;s largest passenger aircraft<\/a><\/span>, the A380 and the Boeing 777. However, it is also ordering large numbers of Airbus A350s, 787s, and 777Xs. Which of these is replacing the A380? The answer is a bit complicated, as airlines rarely ever neatly replace one generation with another on a one-for-one basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emirates is ordering the A350s to grow its fleet and add flexibility; it will not replace the A380, which is expected to serve through the 2030s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[430,898,396,476,919],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a350","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-emirates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343537,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343536\/revisions\/343537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}