EK President, Tim Clark, said in an interview:
"We've been on at [Airbus] since the thing was started. We said -800
is too small, we want the -900. People thought we were barking mad as
usual, but it's in the cards, it's ready to go and the design
specifications have been done."
"[If Airbus decide to do the -900] we would immediately modify to -
900s and try to adjust the back end of our delivery stream. Given an
airport that's a lot bigger I would see Emirates with up to 100 of
these aircraft without a problem. Everyone again will think here they
go again, but the fact is we make very good money on them."