Emirates is in discussions with Airbus to take delivery of its A350 wide-body aircraft at a faster pace amid continuing delays with Boeing’s 777X programme.
The airline will seek up to two jets a month, with the first deliveries starting in the summer of 2024, Tim Clark, Emirates’ president, said at a media round-table in Doha on Monday.
“We’re talking to Airbus about compressing the delivery scale, so we will probably get up to two a month, we’ve got 50 coming so we’re trying to get the whole lot done in two years to pick up this big capacity,” he told the International Air Transport Association’s annual general meeting.
The airline had placed an order for 50 of the A350-900 XWB aircraft worth $16 billion at list prices at the Dubai…