Emirates Airline is on its way to make the U.S. one of its largest source revenue as it started offering A380 service to Dallas-Fort Worth on Wednesday.
In total, Emirates already has nine destinations in the U.S., including the recently opened one in Texas. North America contributes 7% in the airlines current revenue, same as in Australia, Europe, and India. Emirates President Tim Clark said in a conference in September that it's hoping to boost the airline's presence in America.
To help their expansion, Emirates has ordered 260 airplanes at Boeing and Airbus. They made the largest purchase in commercial aviation history with their order of 150 777X jumbo jet, the newest aircraft model from Boeing, worth $56 billion. Emirates also bough less than a year ago 50 of Airbus's A380, the largest passenger aircraft. The Dubai-based airlines aims to fly 70 million passengers yearly by 2020.
American and European airlines accuse Emirates of playing unfairly as they say it benefits from the subsidies of the United Arab Emirates' government. The UAE government owns Emirates' parent company. The airline denies the allegations and said that they flourish because their home government is supportive of the aviation industry.
Doug Parker, chief executive of American Airlines, said that its primary business concern isn't terrorism or the Ebola outbreak, but its foreign competitors including Emirates.
Bloomber cited the problem of where Emirates would fly its upcoming aircraft. According to the news site, the Dubai-based airline would need to boost the number of daily flights and find new airports to dock their jumbo jets. In a few years, it needs to consider offering flights that do not connect to Dubai.
Since its launch in the mid '80s, Emirates has evolved into flying 43 million people to 150 destinations in their fleet of 230 passenger aircraft yearly. They own the most number of Airbus Group NV's A380 superjumbo jets and Boeing 777 jetliners.
