{"id":2268,"date":"2026-05-26T10:41:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/emirates-completes-refit-of-two-class-a380\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:41:18","slug":"emirates-completes-refit-of-two-class-a380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/emirates-completes-refit-of-two-class-a380\/","title":{"rendered":"Emirates completes refit of two-class A380"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An A380 aircraft has been refitted with Emirates\u2019 new interior as part of the airline\u2019s modernisation programme for the aircraft type.<\/p>\n<p>The refurbished aircraft (A6-EUX) is the first of 15 A380s that the airline will refurbish from two to three class, converting the cabin to accommodate premium economy in addition to standard economy and business class.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/cabin\/first-a380-to-be-fitted-with-starlink-enters-service\/\">First A380 to be fitted with Starlink enters service<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Managed entirely in-house by Emirates Engineering in Dubai, the retrofit programme has so far completed work on 95 Emirates aircraft including 42 Airbus A380s (converted to four-class) and 53 Boeing 777s, representing more than one third of Emirates\u2019 current fleet of aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the retrofit, Emirates\u2019 award-winning Premium Economy cabin will be featured, for the first time, in the upper deck of the A380. The new class is set in a 2-3-2 configuration, customers can enjoy features including full leg and footrests, 6-way adjustable headrests, built-in charging ports, side cocktail tables as IFE on a 13.3 inch screen.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Tim Clark, President Emirates Airline said: \u201cThe reconfiguration of our two-class A380 into three-class layout that brings our popular Premium Economy seating onto the upper deck illustrates the extensive capabilities of our team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/cabin\/emirates-completes-refit-of-two-class-a380\/\">Emirates completes refit of two-class A380<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/\">Aviation Business News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An A380 aircraft has been refitted with Emirates\u2019 new interior as part of the airline\u2019s modernisation programme for the aircraft type. The refurbished aircraft (A6-EUX) is the first of 15 A380s that the airline will refurbish from two to three class, converting the cabin to accommodate premium economy in addition to standard economy and business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}