The Emirates Airline fluttered in the initial Airbus A-380 super jumbo with 517 passengers on the scheduled business maneuver into India on Thursday, and was greeted and embraced at the pristine new Terminal 3 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport via bending squirts of water in an aviation industry gesture.

Due to the ongoing volcanic ash issues, the European air travel is facing troubled times and has already cost Emirates Airline US$50 million.

The Dubai-based carrier told that it lost an income from 18,000 passengers a day since the airspace across the United Kingdom and much of Europe remained closed.

Emirates, the award-winning airline's inaugural non-stop flight from Dubai to Narita International Airport in Tokyo, Japan, would be joined by passengers from nine gateways across Emirates' Middle East network early on Sunday morning.

Sending sexually explicit text messages cost very dearly to the members of two Emirates airlines cabin crew as they were awarded a jail of three months. The National Newspaper claimed that both persons were convicted of "coercion to commit sin," according to information received from the court dealing with the matter.

Air Canada President Calin Rovinescu pulled Emirates Airline for using unfair practices for getting additional access in Canada. Coming down heavily on some Dubai and United Arab Emirates based air-lines for using predatory tactics to get more access to Vancouver and Calgary.

Emirates Airline chief executive Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum told that in order to come out from the global economic crisis, the education would be the most strived effort of the UAE.

Sheikh Ahmed, who is also the chairman of the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, told that the will and belief of its people had become stronger. The comments were published by news agency WAM.

United Arab Emirates-based Emirates Airline has announced to provide better connectivity between Indonesia and UAE by launching twice daily flights from Jakarta to Dubai from March 1 in line with government's plans to increase arrivals from Middle Eastern countries by up to 100,000 in 2010. The airline operated 11 times in a week in 2009.