article_snippet.sent: The encouraging numbers came as Rolls-Royce announced Rolls-Royce biggest-ever order, worth more than £6billion, to power passenger jets for the Middle Eastern airline Emirates.
article_snippet.sent: The Rolls-Royce deal means The Rolls-Royce will make the engines for 50 of Emirates’ Airbus A380 planes from The Rolls-Royce UK factories, where The Rolls-Royce employs 24,500 people.
article_snippet.sent: Emirates’ use of the A380 is said to have created 7,000 UK jobs.
article_snippet.sent: Rolls-Royce has worked with Emirates since 1996 but this is the first time Rolls-Royce has made engines for the Gulf carrier’s super-jumbo fleet.