Emirates to debut new A380 Premium Economy cabins across five major airports

Emirates announced plans to debut its newly retrofitted A380 passenger planes featuring its latest Premium Economy cabins to five more cities across the United from December 2022.

The airline will roll out its Premium Economy seats to New York (JFK), San Francisco (SFO), Melbourne (MEL), Auckland (AKL), and Singapore (SIN). The airline’s latest plans will also see the return of 85 A380s by the end of the year, which it sees as “well-timed to serve the year-end travel demand”.

Emirates explained in a press release on September 1, 2022 that the freshly retrofitted A380s will start serving New York flights from December 1, 2022 and Auckland from January 15, 2023. Melbourne will become the second Australian destination to be served with the enhanced A380s starting February 1, 2023, while the aircraft will land in Singapore for the first time on March 1.

San Francisco will become the second US destination to be served by the retrofitted A380 on February 15. Emirates will also update its schedules to London Heathrow and Sydney.