{"id":433107,"date":"2026-05-20T19:33:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/emirates-high-density-a380-premium-economy-retrofit-debut\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T19:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:33:29","slug":"from-615-to-569-seats-emirates-debuts-first-high-density-a380-retrofit-with-premium-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=433107","title":{"rendered":"From 615 To 569 Seats: Emirates Debuts First High-Density A380 Retrofit With Premium Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Middle Eastern giant, <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>, has completed the cabin retrofit of its first high-density Airbus A380 aircraft, which returned to service on Saturday (May 16), after a period of two months. The nine-year-old airframe is the first of the 15 high-density A380s within the airline&#8217;s fleet to undergo this retrofit process, which introduces the carrier&#8217;s popular premium economy cabin on the upper deck of the aircraft for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The airline removes 120 economy seats and adds 56 premium economy and 18 additional business class seats in their place.<\/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":[898,396,10135,919,854],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-cabin-retrofit","category-emirates","category-premium-economy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433107","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=433107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433111,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433107\/revisions\/433111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}