Singapore Air is a funny old beast of an airline, running A380's across the world and keeping its fleet relatively young.It's also had a link to Manchester for quite some time, that has been recently under strain when the direct service went patchy to 3 days a week, and finally, the service was switched to 5 days a week with a diversion to Munich to pick up more passengers.Well … [Read more...]
Please Airbus? Can we have some more? – Emirates to order 32 new A380’s.
It seems Emirates still has a lot of money flowing around, with today order at the Berlin airshow for a an extra 32 Airbus A380's, taking the total the carrier will have to 90 units, all to be fitted with Engine Alliance GP7200 engines. With 234 units on the order book, and 90 of them Emirates, it's clear to see who wants the capacity there in when the upturn fully hits. … [Read more...]
More A380’s heading towards LHR … and MAN?
Both Qantas and Emirates are upping service frequency and swapping Boeing 747's/777's for Airbus A380 aircraft for London services.Emirates will be bringing a second service, which will be EK03/04 (along with EK01/02) with a Dubai service, making it two A380 services a day to London Heathrow. The remaining services (EK05/06, 07/08) will remain on whatever other equipment … [Read more...]
It’s confirmed: Air France to run A380’s on LHR- CDG route!
Business Traveller have confirmed the madness of Air France, and that they will be running a CDG-LHR-CDG Airbus A380 service.Fares start from £80 (or €80) in econony, and business class seats are for sale too. A question mark if they're selling First Class ticket exists at this time (or if they decide to run it empty)So before you go off and book that ticket, be … [Read more...]
Air France considers loosing its marbles… and considers a CDG-LHR A380 deployment
Ok. WHAT is Air France on THIS time?It seems Air France is considering becoming Lemming Airlines en France with the latest news that they're seriously considering deploying an A380 to serve the London to Paris market.Umm. April was last month kids.Anyhoo according to Flight, the carrier is looking at other options to exploit the capacity of the 538-seat jet.The full details are … [Read more...]
QF32 (A380) has a little hard landing… and blows some tyres
I'll let the video do the talking.Suffice to say, everyone is safe, and infact - the plane has re-entered service after check in what is described as a minor incident. … [Read more...]
Lufthansa – No: We’re not naming our A380 “Starlingrad”
The problem with the online world and social media is sometimes, things don't always go to plan.Take Lufthansa for instance. They decided to harness the power of social media to name their brand new Airbus A380. With an offer of 1 Million Miles on the table, some wag was going to have some fun with this.And so they did.A Russian woman nominated the name of … [Read more...]
Your next flight to Dante’s Inferno – Operated by Air Austral
The Airbus A380 - Sometimes called a WhaleJet or a BlunderBus, it does have redeeming features in the carriers that have so far implemented it - least of all in First, Business or even down the back where there have been innovations throughout. However, Airbus quote a theoretical 853 ultra-dense all Economy layout of an A380 as the maximum design limit. Well it seems Air … [Read more...]
Dubai Airshow 2009: Condesed, Distilled and Highlighted.
It's time to pack your buckets and spades, and head of to Dubai for the airshow. (What... Dubai is Blackpool but with Sun? Nothing of the sort. You might like to think that - I possibly couldn't comment) Anyhoo, they're having an airshow, so lets look at the run up and day 1, and see what's interesting in Civil aviation.... Jazeera Airways orders IFE and … [Read more...]
The News Roundup
Sorry I haven't had a chance to do this this past two weeks - life at Kevin Towers has been close to a living hell. Those who know the words "Exchange Server Migration" will know where I'm coming from. As last weeks news is more or less irrelevant like any news (ask the The Daily Mail after this weeks furoiri over the death of Steven Gately commentary piece by one of … [Read more...]