Emirates A380 daily service from Manchester
Manchester Airport is one of only 17 across the world able to accept the giant 517-seater plane. Airport bosses have spent £10m (and eighteen months) upgrading the airfield ahead of the jet’s arrival and engineers had to strengthen the runways, move back signs and buy a new fire engine to allow it to land.
The A380’s advanced technology makes it the quietest plane there is. It makes half the noise of other planes when it’s taking off. The plane is also more environmentally friendly than other aircraft and uses 20% less fuel per seat.
The Airbus will fly from Manchester to Dubai, and onward destinations, daily allowing business users from the north to travel directly to the Middle East, Asia, the Far East and Australia without transiting Heathrow.
Emirates employs nearly 350 people at the airport and its European call centre in nearby Wilmslow whilst the wings for the A380 are made at the Airbus factory in Broughton, Cheshire, where 6,000 people work.
Thursday, 02 September, 2010
