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Emirates mulls cheaper long-haul flights

  Bloomberg Emirates, known for luxurious planes with showers and bars, is considering adding cheaper long-distance flights in order to better fend off aggressive competition from low-cost carriers. “More and more international network carriers will be starting to move into the long-haul, low-cost market,” Emirates president Tim Clark said at a press briefing in Berlin. “That will be the shape ...

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‘Rolls-Royce’s A380 engines not up to standard’

  Bloomberg Emirates, the world’s biggest long-haul airline, said it’s unhappy with performance shortfalls afflicting $6.1 billion’s worth of Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc engines ordered to power a batch of 50 Airbus Group SE A380 superjumbos. Feedback on the Trent 900 powerplants indicates “technical issues” that need to be resolved before the first plane is delivered to Emirates next month, Tim ...

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Airbus wins $1.4bn order for 13 planes from Japan’s Peach

  Bloomberg Airbus Group SE won an order for 13 Airbus planes valued at about $1.4 billion at list prices from Japanese budget carrier Peach Aviation Ltd., making inroads in a nation where most aircraft flown come from Boeing Co. Peach signed an agreement to buy 10 A320neo aircraft and three A320ceo planes, it said in a statement Friday. The ...

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