This Plane Will Have a Record-Breaking 615 Seats
Jeff Edwards November 12, 2015
Emirates unveiled a new Airbus A380 with a cabin design that will allow the superjumbo jet to carry 615 passengers, more than any other jetliner in history.
Emirates is making room for even more passengers on the largest commercial jet in the world. The Gulf carrier has unveiled a new seating configuration that will increase the number of seats on its new Airbus A380 to accommodate 615 passengers, the most passengers on any single regularly scheduled flight ever. Air France holds the current record with the A380 aircraft in its fleet configured to seat 580 passengers.
CNN reports Emirates will find room for the extra economy class seats by eliminating the first class cabin and shower facilities. The recently unveiled A380 will instead be outfitted with only two cabins including 58 business class seats and 557 economy class seats. The airline stopped short of increasing capacity to 650 seats which is widely viewed as the maximum number of passengers that the A380-200 is safely capable of accommodating. That even larger configuration would require rows that are up to 11 seats wide.
While the move towards eliminating first class cabins in exchange for a greater number of business class and economy seats seems to be inline with industry trends, it is something of a reversal for Emirates which recently signed Jennifer Aniston to a rumored $5 million endorsement deal in which she touts the very amenities that the airline will discontinue on the new plane.
The new 615 passenger, two-class A380 is expected to enter service in December of this year making regularly scheduled flights between Dubai International Airport (DXB) and Copenhagen Airport (CPH).
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It is said that the model for this is DL's 739; a modern packaging miracle.
No need for FC on a 6 hour flight. CPH and all European flights are feeders for their network to India, Africa, Australia and Southeast Asia.
At least they won't go 11-across.
A380-200? Is this a whole new variant, or just a typo for the 380-800?
And they're planning to get rid of showers on certain planes at the same time they're running ads on US TV with Jennifer Aniston having a bad dream about being on a plane without a shower because it wasn't an Emirates plane? What ridiculous timing!