Dubai / WAM The first Emirates A380 to be completely refurbished under the airline’s $2 billion retrofit programme has been deployed on Friday on the Dubai-London Heathrow service, operating as EK003. The retrofit work was done on A6-EVM, the first of 120 Emirates aircraft to have completed its refurbishment. Sir Tim Clark, President Emirates Airline, said, “Customers will notice …

Bloomberg Europe’s biggest airline is resurrecting a dinosaur of the skies to tackle a dearth of premium seats on lucrative intercontinental routes. Deutsche Lufthansa AG will return five aging Airbus SE A340 jets in order to boost the availability of first-class seats as travel demand continues to rebound from the coronavirus crisis. The widebodies will be brought out of storage …

  Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co will update its earnings guidance prior to reporting fourth-quarter results to reflect costs associated with an operations meltdown that forced it to cancel 15,700 flights over eight days. “We will be issuing some information before earnings,” Chief Executive Officer Bob Jordan said in an interview without providing specifics of the changes. “Obviously it’s a significant …