Well as the Paris Air show has kicked off, this is your lunchtime update to who's buying what.. and other fun points. Airbus who managed to ding one of their test A380's in a ground incident at Paris Le Borget yesterday are flying in a Korean Air Airbus A380 to do it's display programme. How much of the display it will run is of course, besides the point.GE Capital have been … [Read more...]

Well if you're a big airline or airframe manfacturer, it's your lucky week as you're decamping from your homes to Paris Le Bourget for five days of fun, games, and the harsh game of negotiation and buying.Already aircraft have arrived, with Airbus dinging an A380 already, Boeing bringing over their 747-8I over, and Sukhoi bringing it's little SuperJet 100 over too.GhettoIFE.com … [Read more...]

Ok all - it's time for that wonderful game called "Spot the error in the advert"Is someone using Airbus Corporate footage and adding their own titles on? ;)Well the answer is ... roll forward to 7 seconds in and you'll see... a Trent Engine being mounted.What's so important about that you might ask? Well... Korean Air are using... Engine Alliance Engines... Not Rolls Royce … [Read more...]

With the oncomming storm that is the Airbus A380, Korean Air will be upping it's frequencies from 7 times a week to:From 11th June - 6 times a week with a second service 7 (a Double frequency to Seoul on a Saturday)Dept ICN 09:10      Arrive CDG 13:50Dept CDG 16:30      Arrive ICN 10:20+1Equipment rostered for this additional service is a Boeing … [Read more...]

Korean Air has umm'd and ahh'd over where it's going to deploy it's first A380. And it's chosen Paris Charles De Gaul as it's first "Official" destination after the run-in flightsThe run-in flights will initially commence on regional routes the 17/06/2011 operating Seoul Inchon to Tokyo Narita, Hong Kong and eventually Bangkok. Internationally the A380's will be deployed on … [Read more...]

Time for some more A380 news with Mayalsian Airlines annoucing one of the first destinations for their soon to be delivered A380 fleet will be... London. In additional, they will also be serving Amsterdam too. Deliveries of the A380 fleet are due next year when they take five of the fleet of six on order, with the final frame due in 2013. Malaysian will be operating on the high … [Read more...]

Lufthansa have decided the next place to serve with it's A380 fleet, and it's been coming - it's SingaporeThis makes it three Asia Destinations for it's A380 fleet (With Tokyko and Bejing being the other destinations)Additionally a Munich to Jakarta will be operated by the displaced A340.The march of the A380 continues.... … [Read more...]

Emirates are having a busy time at the moment, with the announcement of yet another A380 route, this time serving Dubai and Johannesburg Emirate will be running one of their numerous A380's from the 1st October 2011EK761 Dept DXB   04:40  Arr JNB 10:50EK762 Dept JNB   14:10  Arr DXB 00:10+1 This will replace one of the existing 3x daily JNB … [Read more...]