{"id":422469,"date":"2026-05-07T20:46:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/emirates-bought-29-airbus-a380s-record-profit\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T20:46:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:46:41","slug":"superjumbo-emirates-bought-29-airbus-a380s-during-its-most-profitable-year-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=422469","title":{"rendered":"Superjumbo: Emirates Bought 29 Airbus A380s During Its Most Profitable Year Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emirates purchased a total of 29 <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"70735\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Airbus A380<\/span><\/span> airframes during FY2025-26, transitioning the leased superjumbos to full ownership. These aircraft were already flying for the carrier and were due to be returned to their leasing company owners. <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> is the world&#8217;s largest A380 operator with more than 90 examples in service and dozens more parked, and has committed to flying the double-decker until at least 2040.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking ownership of its double decker fleet.<\/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":[898,396,919,4380,2962],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-emirates","category-profit","category-united-arab-emirates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422469","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=422469"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422480,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422469\/revisions\/422480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}