A380
THE AIRBUS A380 IS (NOT) A DUD
The media campaign is doing the rounds again: 'THE AIRBUS A380 IS A DUD.'
In reality, for a world where the price of oil is back up to $135 a barrel (and above), slots at Heathrow are limited to only two runways, and Pilots are hard to come-by; the A380 is a winner. Provided your marketing department can fill the planes. For the only airline who can do that, if the upstairs is full, everything downstairs is profit, and vice-versa. Read More…
In reality, for a world where the price of oil is back up to $135 a barrel (and above), slots at Heathrow are limited to only two runways, and Pilots are hard to come-by; the A380 is a winner. Provided your marketing department can fill the planes. For the only airline who can do that, if the upstairs is full, everything downstairs is profit, and vice-versa. Read More…
QF32 SINGAPORE
When you try to turn an Airbus 380 into a Boeing 747, things happen.
We have seen an email from one of the Qantas Pilots on the QF32 Flight Deck. Read More…
We have seen an email from one of the Qantas Pilots on the QF32 Flight Deck. Read More…
QANTAS A380
'Parts from a Qantas jet have landed on a school'
The Twitter-world went crazy with reports that a Qantas A380 had crashed into an Indonesian island. Reports were dispelled after a very tense hour. I had just flown the Emirates A380 from Sydney to Dubai, and had just arrived at my home when the first reports came in. Read More…
The Twitter-world went crazy with reports that a Qantas A380 had crashed into an Indonesian island. Reports were dispelled after a very tense hour. I had just flown the Emirates A380 from Sydney to Dubai, and had just arrived at my home when the first reports came in. Read More…