So these airframes are hopefully the older ones with ICE1 & 2.

There was no mention of the A350’s getting it in the press release. Any idea if they’re actually going to get starlink?

Emirates orders 8 additional A350-900s.

Source: https://www.emirates.com/media-centr...airshow-2025/#

From the above link :-Emirates aircraft fleet and orderbook – 19 November 2025

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The B787s must have been on order for 10 years :D

Can anyone confirm whether A6-EQH has now also been fitted with Starlink?

It was sitting in front of EK Engineering Hangar C for the past two days and is about to fly to KWI.

For reference QR was able to perform a Starlink refit on a B77W in ~9.5 hours.

A6-EPF flew its first rotation with Starlink to DUB yesterday and is currently returning to DXB.

Whoever is maintaining the sheet with the fleet status at the moment might consider adding Starlink? Great resource! :tu:

I'm flying to SGN which seems to be a lottery of 73L or 77L

Does anyone know how far the game changer suite aircraft retrofits are progressing as of now?

Emirates and Starlink
 

after announcement, now how many Emirates B777’s have Starlink service?

Is anyone missing the "Special Routes" tab on the Fleet guide doc?

EK's rapidly changing plans made it increasingly hard to maintain and the list of routes with PE available has grown significantly since it was first announced so it made sense to drop it.

Noticed long-stored A6-EDR was undergoing an “idle run” at DWC this morning, its transponder was active on flightradar. After a long pause in aircraft returning from DWC, looks like we might be about to see the next A380 do just that.

And A6-EDR has returned to DXB today, just in time for Christmas

The first of the converted 3-class (J/W/Y) A380s appear to be loaded in the schedules from June onwards, indicating conversions taking place starting May. The economy class cabin on the upper-deck will be converted into the new premium economy cabin. All routes except CPH will gradually receive the refurbished frames between June and October 2026.

I would guess the reason we are not seeing CPH loaded with the new cabin is that the A380 on the route will be replaced with a double daily frequency of another aircraft type. As we had previously seen, a tentative schedule for EK153/154 was published for summer 2025 that was a late afternoon departure ex-DXB.