Lufthansa, an A380 operater who uses Trent Engines have annouced to Flight that they will not be grounding their A380's.To quote:"We are looking in to data from our engine condition monitoring" Lufthansa are awaiting an advisory from Rolls-Royce on the matter, but airline is not planning to suspend A380 services at this time.Further coverage continues later. … [Read more...]

From Qantas.com in relation to the A380 engine cowling/containment failure earlier todayQantas has also indicated that, in accordance with its commitment to the highest safety standards, it has suspended scheduled A380 takeoffs until sufficient information has been obtained about what occurred on QF32.Qantas Chief Executive Officer, Alan Joyce said Qantas would suspend A380 … [Read more...]

It seems Qantas had a problem with flight QF32 from Singapore to Sydney (from London) where one of the four Trent 900 engine's failed, causing debris from the engine to fall off. No indications yet why the engine failed during take off, or why the damage to the engine has been caused. The main casualty appears to be the engine cowling which has been lost in the incident. The … [Read more...]

As Gatwick continues to assert it's independance over BAA and get it's own identity, a welcome peice of news has arrived from Crawley Borough Council (the area Gatwick is based in) to allow operation of A380's through LGW.This now puts it on par with Heathrow and Manchester as one of the few places that A380's can operate from without special permission.  Of course, to … [Read more...]

Air France is continuing with it's A380 rollout programme announcing a service to Montreal, with the start of a new service from 9th May 2011.This will form flight AF346 departing Paris CDG at 1610, arriving Montreal 1720 and AF347 departing Montreal 1955 and arriving Paris CDG the next morning at 0830 on the inbound. However, for the extra capacity to head this way, something … [Read more...]

It seems Lufthansa is still trying to get their pilots trained on A380's, and have announced more odd deployments of the the WhaleJet.This time, the A380's are off to get some sun in Mallorca during next month.Times and dates are Date     DEP FRA   ARV PMI02/10/10 09:20      11:2003/10/10 … [Read more...]

The other master of the publicity stunt, Emirates is going to deploy an A380 for a day to Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport as part of the launch of the airports Terminal 3. The service will be EK516 on July 15, leaving Dubai at 1010 and arriving at 1450, returning as EK517, departing at 1750.India is one of the few places where an A380 has yet to touch down on a … [Read more...]