Editorials

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.
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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.
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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.
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