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Post by bvb09 on Mar 4, 2014 12:55:28 GMT 1
I think there is only a need of 2 aircraft for a daily service to Australia and to NY... Taking 6 of the 10 on order, are left 4 for London and elsewhere?... Fabien Is there anyone on the forum with knowledge about how airlines actually calculate the need? On EY's current timetable, the aircraft operating the routes to MEL, SYD and JFK all are back home at AUH within less than 36 hours. The timetable would actually allow a combined use of just three aircraft for the route to MEL or SYD AND one of its two daily services to JFK, with ground times in AUH of at least about 2,5 hours. I looked up on fr24 how EK's A380s are used. Some of them are continously in Service for at least ten days without staying at DXB for more than just a few hours. But I suppose that once every while each aircraft has to stay "home" a little bit longer. How often and for how long would that be?
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Post by bvb09 on Feb 27, 2014 9:29:26 GMT 1
interesting link, above the displayed map, it says: Routes on which A380s have been deployed (through Dec 2013) are indicated on the world map below: if you click on ATL, you see this
Except for ICN, these routes are new to me. On the other hand, SFO (from where at least two destinations were served regularly and FRA will be soon again) doesn't appear on the map at all.
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Post by bvb09 on Feb 24, 2014 12:16:18 GMT 1
Is this really a slide from Lufthansa at an A380 of air France? Strange, how could this happen? And why is Air France flying with this clearly visible wrong slide? Definitely a conspiracy by Boeing or the US government in somewhat unprofessional disguise. There are parts of only three letters visible and there's only one meaning to this combination
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Post by bvb09 on Feb 18, 2014 10:00:58 GMT 1
The opening of the new Doha airport is like watching a soap. Somewhat off topic, but if you consider this a soap, you probably didn't hear very much about the German Capital's new airport BER.
From Wikipedia: Originally planned to be opened in 2010, Berlin Brandenburg Airport has encountered a series of delays due to poor construction planning, management and execution. As of January 2014, it is known the airport will not open in 2014, but no date has been fixed for when the airport will be inaugurated.
Several announced inauguration dates already passed, most notably the "opening" on June 3, 2012, which was postponed only 26 days in advance. Almost two years are gone since...
As several forum members liked the post above, I’ll try to give you some more information. While you can find thousands of articles in German discussing the aforementioned topic, there are only a handful of substantial ones in English. Even though published almost a year ago, this one still gives a pretty decent summary. The whole thing (and other recent building projects) went so awry that someone came up with the idea of LEGO producing a series called “Failed German large-scale Projects” (sorry, link only in German, I don’t know if there’s an English version yet)
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Post by bvb09 on Feb 17, 2014 8:35:16 GMT 1
The opening of the new Doha airport is like watching a soap. Somewhat off topic, but if you consider this a soap, you probably didn't hear very much about the German Capital's new airport BER.
From Wikipedia: Originally planned to be opened in 2010, Berlin Brandenburg Airport has encountered a series of delays due to poor construction planning, management and execution. As of January 2014, it is known the airport will not open in 2014, but no date has been fixed for when the airport will be inaugurated.
Several announced inauguration dates already passed, most notably the "opening" on June 3, 2012, which was postponed only 26 days in advance. Almost two years are gone since...
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Post by bvb09 on Feb 14, 2014 19:57:54 GMT 1
I guess he got his job based on his name: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temel_KotilYes to many transit hubs between Europe and East Asia in the same area. I prefer to go straight without stopping in the gulf. I guess you mean: "Yes, too many transit hubs..."
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Post by bvb09 on Feb 14, 2014 12:00:14 GMT 1
I'm really curious how this will turn out. If they really plan to use the A380 to PER in March, it would make some sense to make it official soon, unless there is still some major obstacle which prevents them from doing so (uncertain delivery dates? probably not).
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Post by bvb09 on Feb 13, 2014 16:15:37 GMT 1
thanks danteg! Do you please have a link to these sources? The A380 route to Perth was supposed to start on 1st March... Fabien I doubt this will happen so soon. If you try to book a flight to PER on emirates.com, it shows Boeing 777-300ER for all three daily services (EK420, EK422 and EK424) on March 1st (on March 29th as well and even on July 31st). Of course, this is no proof that it won't happen until July, but at least it does't have the same "official" status as for example the second daily A380 Service to DME which starts Aug 1st (and can already be booked accordingly).
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Post by bvb09 on Feb 12, 2014 17:57:44 GMT 1
A6-EEI, operating EK29 DXB-LHR, was diverted to AMS today due to bad weather (probably wind?):
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Post by bvb09 on Jan 23, 2014 14:07:48 GMT 1
Sorry for my persistence, as I already asked about this in the thread Airbus A350 - General Discussion (2014) :
Does anyone know how the mentioned flight hours from the nearest diversion airport are actually determined as the calculation has to take into account that the aircraft would run on just one engine? How fast would "single engined speed" be compared to regular (i.e. double engined) speed? Nothing wrong with insisting, but this is a very pointed question. I personnally have no idea of the details (do you take wind conditions into account ... ?). I hope somebody else on this forum has, but I am not so sure ! Well, I searched the Internet before I first asked, but for example the article "ETOPS" in english Wikipedia didn't help a lot. So now I tried german Wikipedia (which in many cases is much less detailed than the english Version) and found the following: "Die tatsächliche maximale Entfernung zu einem Ausweichflughafen errechnet sich ... indem pro 60 „ETOPS-Minuten“ 400 Nautische Meilen zugrundegelegt werden... In Grenzfällen akzeptiert das Luftfahrtbundesamt 405 NM." This basically means that the actual distance to a diversion airport is calculated based on equating 60 ETOPS-minutes with 400NM. In borderline cases the Luftfahrtbundesamt (the national civil aviation authority of Germany) would also accept 405NM. An Airbus press release related to the A330's ETOPS certification even correlates 240 minutes with 1700NM, so that would be a single-engined speed of 425kts/h. I'm not quite sure about the relevance of the Luftfahrtbundesamt in the certification process, but I am quite surprised that today's twinjet aircraft seem to be able to cruise at about 80% of their regular Speed for several hours on just one engine.
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