Emirates took delivery of its first Airbus A350 (registration A6-EXA), the first of 65 A350 aircraft to be delivered to the airline over the course of the next few years.

The aircraft will officially enter commercial service in January when it makes its debut flight to its first destination, Edinburgh, followed by 8 other destinations across the Middle East, West Asia and Europe.

Today is a media day at Dubai International Airport as Emirates opens its first A350-900 to journalists.

Richard Schuurman, a freelance aviation reporter for AirlinerWorld is on board, taking photos.

The first 15 A350 aircraft will seat 312 passengers. The remaining 50 A350s will be ultra-long range with 298 seats due to a crew rest area.

Emirates expects one more Airbus A350-900 this year plus three through late March.

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After two landing attempts on runway 27L at London Heathrow, flight #EK1 is diverting to Birmingham Airport.

The Airbus A380-800 (registration A6-EVC) is expected to land in few mins at BHX.

A strong crosswind up to 38 kt is challenging pilots of flights landing at London Heathrow today.

The Airport earlier announced to out of our planned alternation programme today: landing on the southern runway (27L) and taking off from the northern runway (27R) due to Storm Bert resulting in strong wind conditions exceeding those parameters deemed safe in planned alternation.

Saudia flight #SV119 to London Heathrow just diverted to London Gatwick.

Eurocontrol is expecting “high delays for arrivals due to Wind of storm Bert.”

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Emirates flight #EK39 was scheduled to land at 12:25 at Birmingham, UK.

The Airbus A380 (registration A6-EVB) was put on hold at 10,000 ft near BHX airport before a first landing attempt on runway 33 at 13:17 BST.

The aircraft went around due to a strong crosswind and heavy rain. A second attempt resulted in the same action due to low visbility.

The flight then was vectored to Manchester Airport where it landed one hour later.

We are in the process of rebooking the flights to final destination and will send updated itinerary shortly.

Emirates

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