Posted by John McHaleTOULOUSE, France, 7 June 2010. Emirates Airline received the 30th A380 from Airbus. This is the tenth A380 Emirates has received out of its total firm order for 58 aircraft. This aircraft will be on display at the ILA Berlin Air Show which is taking place from June 8th to 13th. Lufthansa will also bring their recently delivered, first A380 to the show and from June 11th an Airbus flight test A380 will be on static and flying display. Airbus has already delivered seven A380s so far in 2010, three to Emirates Airline, two to Air France, one to Lufthansa, and one to Qantas. Airbus is on track to deliver a total of at least 20 A380s in 2010, Airbus officials say.Today 30 A380s are flying on 20 routes linking 18 major international destinations, Airbus officials say. Together they have carried nearly five and a half million passengers on 15,000 revenue flights and have clocked up almost 140,000 revenue flight hours. These A380 flights have saved 640,000t of CO2 emissions by replacing journeys that would otherwise have been made with less fuel-efficient large aircraft. The A380 has the lowest fuel burn of any wide body aircraft, needing less than three liters of fuel per passenger per 100 kilometers.Airbus has received 202 firm orders for the A380 from 17 customers.
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