Emirates Unveils Striking New Airbus A380 Livery Featuring the UAE Flag
- Joe Breitfeller

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Emirates has today unveiled a special new Airbus A380 livery featuring a massive UAE flag emblazoned across the fuselage, celebrating UAE pride and cohesion.

On Friday (May 8, 2026), Emirates unveiled a striking new livery of a large UAE flag emblazoned across the fuselage of one of the carrier’s iconic Airbus A380s, the world’s largest commercial passenger aircraft. The new livery on A6-EVG, is an extension of the airline’s iconic tail design, and a powerful tribute to the spirit, ambition and unity of the UAE. This initiative is part of Emirates’ ‘This Flag Will Always Fly’ campaign, responding to the nationwide initiative launched by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai. The initiative calls on all citizens and residents to raise the UAE flag as a unifying symbol, a shared responsibility, and pride in the nation’s strength and cohesion during recent regional challenges.
In Friday’s announcement, Emirates Airline and Group’s Chairman and CEO, His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, said,
“We’re proud to respond to HH Sheikh Mohammad’s call to raise the flag as a tribute to the UAE’s unity and strength. Since our inception, every Emirates aircraft has proudly carried the UAE flag wherever it flies. This new livery is our way of honouring a home that has given us so much, and a nation that stands as proof of what is possible when we collectively choose, every day, to reach higher. There is no greater stage for our flag than in the skies, and no greater privilege for Emirates than to fly it with pride.”

Emirates’ new special A380 livery features the colors of the UAE rendered in a bold, eye-catching 3D design that drapes elegantly across both sides of the aircraft. This moving canvas of national pride has already flown to New York and Brisbane, and is scheduled to operate to more A380 destinations in the Emirates network, becoming visible from runways, skies and cities around the world. Additionally, plans are already underway to apply the flag design to an Emirates Boeing 777, the next largest commercial airliner in the sky after the A380.
Source: Emirates


