Engine Alliance believes that the GP7200 powerplants on Emirates’ newly-introduced Airbus A380 will confirm an operational fuel-burn improvement of 0.9% on the baseline target originally given to the airframer.

Emirates took delivery of the aircraft on 28 July and ferried the jet from Airbus’ Hamburg Finkenwerder plant to Dubai the following day.

Carrying 197 passengers and 28 crew on the sector, the aircraft had a take-off weight of 457t – of which 137t was fuel – and was projected to land at 383t, some 74t lighter.

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