Emirates, the world’s biggest airline by international traffic, urged Airbus SAS to boost the range of the biggest version of its new A350 wide-body plane as Boeing Co. ponders a redesign of the competing 777 model.
Emirates, whose outstanding orders for the 777 will make it the twin-jet’s biggest user, needs higher-capacity aircraft for its longest inter-continental routes, Tim Clark, the Dubai-based airline’s president, said today in an interview in Paris.
Clark has ordered 20 350-seat A350-1000s, a model he says can’t reach Los Angeles from Dubai in the three-class layout that Emirates prefers. The Boeing planes that it currently uses on the route are based on a less efficient 20-year-old design, with the 354-seat 777-300ER at the limits of its range, curbing the payload, and the 777-200LR limited to......
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