Airbus sees some very different uses for its A380s emerging, including short haul high density regional routes, like Sydney-Melbourne, and low cost holiday migrations like those from Japan to Hawaii and Germany to the Caribbean.
Not tomorrow, but within two decades.
All in addition to the A380’s current inaugural roles as a full service flagship airliner plying [...]
Tag Archives: A380
Very Large Jets & Mega Cities, present & future
November 4, 2009 – 8:36 pm
Large mercy shown to economy class passengers
July 21, 2009 – 11:19 am
The most perverse thing about air travel is the inverse relationship between seat size and the up-sizing of passengers.
As the seats get smaller the effects of improved nutrition (as well as excessive nutrition) makes people grow larger, especially those who always occupy the adjacent seats when you are stuck in the middle.
This is not just [...]
Melbourne gets daily Singapore Airlines Airbus A380s to London from 29 September
July 15, 2009 – 2:34 pm
Singapore Airlines will have daily return flights from both Melbourne and Sydney to London on Airbus A380s from 29 September.
The deployment of its ninth A380 on the Melbourne-Singapore route closely parallels the late afternoon departure and early morning arrivals of the giant Airbus on the Sydney-Singapore-London route allowing easy connections for Melbourne travellers in [...]
The Future-Airbus thinks it will be better without attempts to curb growth in air travel
June 13, 2009 – 4:40 pm
Two airlines that despise each other, British Airways and easyJet, and Airbus that sells jets to both, have somehow buried the hatchet long enough to fund an independent study into the economic value of aviation.
Sounds implausible for sure. But the report, paid for by the warring carriers and the world’s largest airliner manufacturer was [...]
Non-stop flights between Australia and London creep back into the background briefings
May 13, 2009 – 9:41 am
The Airbus A380 seems to be closing in on a future capability to fly non-stop between Australia and London by stealth rather than to a fanfare.
This seems a pretty smart thing to do too when airlines are 100% focused on surviving the global economic crisis and almost totally disinterested in pitches for new jets that [...]
Qantas defers 16 jets and fires another 500 top managers
April 14, 2009 – 10:01 am
Qantas this morning cut its estimated profit before tax for the full year to June 30 from previous guidance of $500 million to between $100-200 million.
At the lower limit, this approaches the Virgin Blue guidance for its profits from domestic and regional international flights for the same year before taking on board heavy costs [...]
Qantas signals cancellations or deferrals of Airbus and Boeing orders with Dreamliners at most risk
March 28, 2009 – 11:03 am
Qantas is about to cut deeply into its $20 billion commitment to new jets.
On 15 March, aware that a serious reconsideration of the order for Boeing 787 Dreamliners was underway, a series of questions was asked of Qantas.
Qantas, not surprisingly, didn’t answer them and on 18 March this item on Plane Talking was posted.
Today, in [...]
Goodbye Nancy-Bird Walton (1915-2009)
January 13, 2009 – 5:31 pm
Nancy-Bird Walton who died this afternoon in Sydney aged 93 never lost her way in the air or on the ground.
On a clear winter’s day in June 2007, visiting the cockpit of an Airbus A380 that was making a demonstration flight out of Sydney, Nancy-Bird Walton leaned forward toward the captain’s ear and said “Young [...]
But what about problems with Airbuses?
December 12, 2008 – 6:52 pm
Plane Talking has been serving it up to Boeing ever since the blog launched at the end of September.
A few retards in the juvenile aviation world have said the blog is therefore biased towards Airbus. It is always nice to hear from an aviation subset that thinks about airliners at the same level of sophistication [...]
New Melbourne money machine takes off
October 20, 2008 – 5:10 pm
If the TV coverage of this morning’s inaugural Qantas A380 departure from Melbourne to Los Angeles is a good guide the fully laden jet took off in 23-25 seconds. That is incredibly prompt for a jet with all 450 seats occupied for a 14 hour flight. The Boeing 747-400s the bigger jet replaces could never [...]
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