Emirates A380
Emirates greener, cleaner, quieter A380s take to the skies
The Airbus 380 aircraft is the most environmentally advanced aircraft in the sky and Emirates will operate 90 of them once it has taken delivery of its multi-billion dollar order.
Emirates selected the A380 – and underpinned the Airbus decision to proceed with the programme – because it is the most efficient aircraft flying today. Flying more passengers and burning less fuel – and therefore emissions – is an important environmental outcome.
The A380 is more fuel efficient per passenger kilometre than a small family car. Emirates versions will offer fuel economy as low as 3.1 litres per 100 passenger km, better than that of Toyota’s acclaimed Prius hybrid passenger vehicle.
With our planes at typical loads versus the typical car journey (of one passenger), the Emirates A380s are a significant environmental development.
Emirates A380s will feature the Engine Alliance GP7200 engines, which will save a further 500,000 litres of fuel per aircraft per year than other alternatives. The greater fuel efficiency of the GP7200 engines on Emirates A380s means the lowest emissions of any large commercial aircraft.
Emirates is growing and adding more (eco-efficient) aircraft to our operations. But our fuel and emission performance is one of the industry’s best and our further fleet improvement will help to offset aviation’s total growth and emissions.
The bottom line? The A380, along with aircraft like our new B777 family and our order of 70 A350-XWBs, allows Emirates to offer one of the world’s youngest and most efficient fleets.
Did you know:
- The Emirates A380 burns up to 20% less fuel per seat than other large aircraft
- This is the most significant advancement in reducing fuel burn and emissions in four decades.
- Low fuel burn means lower C02 emissions. The A380 produces less than 75g of C02 per passenger kilometre, almost half of the European target for cars manufactured in 2008.
- Emirates A380s will progressively feature digital inflight magazines, entertainment guides and shopping catalogues, saving 2kg per seat or almost one tonne per aircraft.
- Emirates A380s, which offers more space per passenger in all classes, will also meet ICAO’s gaseous emissions standards by a substantial margin.
- We will comfortably meet current Stage Three and proposed Stage Four noise level standards.
- Our new Emirates A380 maintenance facilities in Dubai are state of the art, efficient buildings.
- A380s feature lightweight materials that account for 25% of its structure.
- Our emissions components – such as NOx – will be well under the regulated ‘cap four’ rule
- Emirates is working with Airbus to further reduce weight of our future A380s.
- Larger aircraft mean less take-off and landings (in passenger terms, some Emirates A380 versions would be the equivalent of flying up to seven smaller aircraft types).
- Emirates average fleet age is less than half that of many European airlines, meaning newer technology and efficiency breakthroughs characterise our aircraft.