I have conflicting information to that, the large majority should be leased.

Not in advance, planes are rotated pretty much at random beyond broader trends (e.g. old planes.to CPT)

SEA is tricky as it usually gets the older seat with some new ones sprinkled in. The last few weeks have consistently been the new(ish) lie flat seat so there is more hope than I would have had a couple months back but there's always the chance you'll get the old seat as it's easy to make a aircraft swap. Earliest you will know is when the aircraft leaves DXB on the day of travel. So as the previous poster said, expect the old and hope for the new.

Around 3 years ago, they only had 5 planes on the books. The rest was leased but I don't know the developments since, don't see why the model would have changed.

A6-ECB have not flown for the last few days ago. So I think ECB is come to an end of era. All the 2 class planes with no touchscreen and older screens has been withdrawn.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/a6-ecb

Plus, A6-EPL is the one that have EXPO 2020 earlier this year before the last, not EPG. The link below is false.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...B04/edit#gid=0

The link also shows leased/owned and the figure of 55 A380s owned supports the figures in post 476. Same source perhaps?

I would say that's A6-EPD rather than EPG in the photo. The EK source also showed A6-EPD for EK25 DXB-GLA on April 8th.
A6-EPG probably is still in standard livery.

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/31094555-post116.html

Our sharp eyed mod has noticed the lack of any mention of the B787 order in the above...

Confirmation that EK won't be taking up their options (I don't believe it was ever a firm order?).

Traveling from EWR to DXB in first on the 777. According to flightradar24, the most current frames are a mix of A6-EGF, EGI, ECS, ECF on different days.
Are these the "newer" versions with an upgraded seat and upgraded IFE?

Also, there are reviews and reports that the first class seats on the 777 are slightly wider than the A380 but seat guru suggest otherwise. Seatguru has the pitch as 69 and width at 20.5 inches. The width (20.5 in) for first is the same as business class. What is correct???

EG* and EC* are some of the oldest frames unfortunately, but as far as F goes the difference isn't that massive, especially as the focus is on the seat, rather than the thickness of the ICE handheld controller, that being the main differentiator. Can't speak to seat sizes too much, but it's definitely a lot more comfortable than J.

A380 A6-EVG was delivered today! :-)

3 class!