Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Emirates Airlines achieved record pre-tax profits for the first half of the fiscal year (2025 – 2026) amounting to 11.4 billion dirhams.
Compared to 9.7 billion dirhams for the same period last year.
While the tanker’s profits after calculating the tax amounted to 9.9 billion dirhams.
Emirates Airlines’ revenues, including other operating revenues, recorded AED 65.6 billion.
With a growth of 6% compared to 62.2 billion dirhams for the same period last year.
customer preferences
This record growth in revenues is due to the continued strong demand for travel across various markets, and customers’ preference for Emirates products and services, especially in premium cabins.
Emirates’ direct operating costs (including fuel) increased by 4% in line with the expansion of operations.
Fuel remained the largest component of the tanker’s operating cost, at 30%.
Thanks to customer demand and the expansion of operations over the six months, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization remained very strong, recording AED 19.7 billion.
This is a growth of 3% compared to 19.1 billion dirhams for the same period last fiscal year.
new planes
Emirates Airlines carried 27.8 million passengers between April 1 and September 30, 2025, a growth of 4% compared to the same period of the previous year.
By September 30, 2025, Emirates’ passenger and cargo network had expanded to 153 airports in 81 countries and territories.
Between April 1 and September 30, Emirates received five new Airbus A350 aircraft.
Which added more premium business and economy class seats to its fleet.
During the same period, 23 aircraft (six Airbus A380s and 17 Boeing 777s) were completely modernized as part of its aircraft modernization program, which costs 18.3 billion dirhams.
