Emirates Airline A380s Design New Model Wings

Emirates Airline expects its Airbus model A380s to start undergoing stable wing maintenance in March. The airline will haul 4 of the aircraft from examination at a time for a stage of eight weeks, Emirates Airline President Tim Clark told Aviation Week. That is about six weeks later than intended earlier this year.

The airline is the most affected in terms of complete volume by the wide repair program caused by the detection of Type 1 and Type 2 cracks in A380 wings in 2011. Emirates aircraft are undergoing opening repairs that must be constant after about 500 flight hours. The permanent fixes are intended to restore the A380 to its full life cycle of 90,000 hours. A total of 44 aircraft will have been delivered with wonderful large wings that need repairs by November 2014. 

The 45th Airline A380 will be the first Emirates aircraft with the recently fresh new model designed wings.  Clark points out that it is input key for Airbus to receive European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) documentation for the new blueprint soon.