Dubai Crisis Threatens Airbus and Boeing, Too

A labor analyst in Washington state told me as goes Boeing so goes Washington! I hope he's wrong this time.

About the A380 Boeing, just increases a new device that can prevent the hijack of airplane.

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If you want to see something troubling, Google "Moodys downgrades." It gives pages of corporations and banks being downgraded. Dubai finally brought back the reality of debt. Now the United States will have its own Dubai next year! It's called Housing 2, Resets for Jumbo loans to Alt-A's to Option ARMs! Good luck, America.

Bob, I second that!

Emirates in particular is not Dubai carrier! It is a regional/international hub, providing connections, connectivity, and interconnect to millions of people and nations. There's lot of reconstruction work after Iraq war, Afghanistan, Pakistan with wrecked surface transport.

With zero railways network, roads doesn't exist, or had mines, in Afghanistan. No the war extending onwards to the North region, and the almost non existent the poorest railways network of 120 years old in Pakistan. It would require decades to build railways network in many parts of the world.

Emirates can cash in the opportunity in the region with war zone countries as Iraq, Afghanistan with immediate air services, for freight, passenger, re-construction with international donor agencies, and development agencies for the reconstruction by deploying air services of Emirates with new, efficient, and cost effective services to the region.

If an order is placed by the affected country it would long time to deliveries, and this way the queue can be by passed.

I see some people are still in denial about Emirates and the Dubai economy.

I agree with most of the comments above.

Emirates has offered some of the lowest fares on many routes but has been getting pressure from countries, first Australia and now Germany that they need to increase fares.

The lowest JFK-DXB is $625 and five carriers offer fares below Emirates, which is $1,350, but is non-stop, one way.

They also have way too many empty premium seats and may need to increase seats in coach/economy.

My brother is an Emirates Capt on the 777 and is flying now - I'm anxious to hear from him. We email each other about once a week so I am somewhat up to date on the airline.

I would never believe Emirates will be able to take delivery of all the aircraft they have on order....time will tell.

Emirates is operating a 380 from DXB-SYD and over to AKL. They offer a low
fare on the last leg, which will give people a chance to try the aircraft on a 3 hour flight-pretty clever move since this airplane is designed to use on long haul flights.

As far as Emirates flying into Kabul or
Baghdad, I think that will be a long
time down the road. There are 9 flights a day to Kabul and one to Baghdad from
DXB but none on Emirates.

I spent 40 years in the airline industry.

@Bob. I wouldn't put so much faith in anything Moody's says... Were they slashing ratings of wall street firms in bulk before Lehmans filed for bankruptcy? Nope!