Airbus A380 Makes its Asian Rounds
The 555-seat Airbus A380 made its first stop in Asia on a final leg of its 150 hour test flight. The destination – Singapore.
Next up will be Hong Kong and then Narita, Japan….then Seoul Korea…and finally back to France.
Singapore Airlines will be the first carrier to fly the superjumbo starting sometime next year – Octoberish, a year late.
Gee, I am glad I wasn’t waiting in the terminal for that plane to take off.
Airbus will lose about $6.2 billion in profits because of the delay. Does that mean they would have made $6.2 billion more had they been on time? In that case, isn’t the price a tad high?
But, what about those guys from the US Federal Aviation Administration and the European Aviation Safety Agency who have to ride this thing to be sure it is not too jumbo?
I am not sure I’d want that job.
What do you think?
Yesterday I saw the Airbus 380 in Düsseldorf/Germany. No doubt this will be the future. The Boing 747 seemed to be an little museum-exhibit. I have never seen such an imressive take-off. A big heavy airplane but there was no noise – so elegant. Before I have been quite critical but what I saw changed my mind – I didn’t really now I was talking about. Everybody around me felt that this is the begin a new chapter of aviation. Nothing compares to this airplane and this is just the begin. The extended version A380-900 will have a capacity of more than 900 passengers.
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