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The president of Emirates says passengers will never again be as comfortable as they have been aboard the enormous discontinued Airbus A380
Emirates, the glitzy Persian Gulf airline, plans to operate passenger flights using Airbus A380s for the first time since the pandemic led the airline to ground the fleet. The airline expects to replace the aging A380 fleet with Boeing 777X aircraft, the first of which is due to be delivered in 2022. However, Tim Clark, the airline's president, told Business Insider that nothing would measure up to the passenger experience on board the A380. As airlines around the world ground their Airbus… (www.yahoo.com) 기타...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Saw many people commenting that if they had the choice of a standard airliner flight and a slightly more expensive and/or inconvenient A380 flight, they would go with the A380... which makes me still a bit confused how airlines couldn't make that aircraft work (pre-Corona of course).
Because hub and spoke isn't used the way it was. As such, airlines need more smaller planes.
Most major airports have the room for the big aircraft, they updated as soon as they got the specs for them. Probably the only airport that is not A380 friendly is LAX, where the runways are really a bit too short, meaning the A380 has to us maximum power at all times to lift off. That may have been a blessing though as it showed up the oil leak fault in the R.R. engines, causing one to explode between SIN and MEL. I still booked my first flight on one just after that happened and we were nearly 4 hours late leaving due to that fault being found during LAME inspection and the plane went to the maintenance bay to be fixed. The previous flight had been from LAX!
Who said anything about space? ofcourse they have room and they only fly into the big airports. Again, hub and spoke isn't bewing used the way they were going to and as such, more traffic goes to smaller airports.
Yeah, I remember the start of the battle between 787 and A380 also being labelled as the battle between direct vs. hub-spoke system. I do admit personally I favor the direct flight and maybe with Corona that gives further push towards this with people trying to avoid masses of people, but hub-spoke is of course not dead at all.
I have flown in SIN, Emirates and Qantas A380s all except the first time in Business class. Economy sure is tight, I am just on 6Ft. and found it a long trip from Melbourne to Heathrow. I enjoy watching them land and take off from my home near MEL. It's a shame so many are going into the Mojave desert, I hope most of them will come back into service some day soon.