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Post by bvb09 on Apr 30, 2013 11:38:18 GMT 1
Out of the blue I would say Manchester, with just 17.663.371 (2010) passengers. Edit: Already have to correct myself. Auckland with just 14.006.122 passengers. At least in one aspect MAN is indeed the smallest airport with regularly scheduled A380 services: According to english wikipedia, its longest runway has a length of just 10.000 ft / 3.050 m. If you use the measuring tool in Google Earth though, the total length of Rwy 05R/23L seems to be approximately 3.300m. Next in Order seem to be YYZ (longest runway 11.120ft/3.390m), IAD (11.500ft/3505m) and SFO (11.870ft/3618m). All other airports have at least one runway of 12.000ft or longer (all data according to English Wikipedia).
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Post by bvb09 on Apr 25, 2013 14:52:02 GMT 1
Currently indeed 5 differents airlines operate the A380 to/out of CDG - NRT - HKG - LAX, and indeed it seems to me also that QTR will send theirs to LHR as well... EDIT: HKG will switch to 6 on 1st May next week when MAS start operating theirs there... Fabien Are you sure about HKG? I think MAS would bring them to 5 as currently Qantas, Korean, Singapore Airlines and Emirates operate the A380 to HKG. AFAIK China Southern DOES NOT (CAN is only about 150km from HKG). But of course BA and Thai announced to join the party later in 2013 which would bring the total to 7.
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Post by bvb09 on Apr 25, 2013 11:27:13 GMT 1
LHR has the most flights per day though AFAIK. Obviously DXB has (and probably will have for a long time) the most A380 flights per day, though by only two operators. And even Singapore still has more flights than LHR (by Singapore Airlines, Emirates, Lufthansa and AirFrance).
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Post by bvb09 on Apr 25, 2013 11:15:47 GMT 1
I would imagine that the double-daily to LAX requires 3 frames?... By 30 mar 2014 BAW should have 5 frames. Fabien It's probably more like 2.5. So given that HKG requires 1.5, they can probably allocate 4 frames to the two routes combined. This still leaves one more frame. Daily LHR-JFK could be done with one frame... At least theoretically, LHR-LAX (twice daily) and LHR-HKG can be done with four frames. The twice daily LHR-LAX service obviously doesn’t work with only two frames as the respective return flights from LAX arrive at LHR almost exactly 24hrs after their original departure from LHR. But if 4 frames each perform the services in the following order, each of them could restart the sequence after 4 days: BA283 LHR1205 – 1510LAX BA282 LAX1745 – 1200+1LHR BA269 LHR1615 – 1915LAX BA268 LAX2130 – 1545+1LHR BA25 LHR1840 - 1720+1HKG BA26 HKG2325 – 0450+1LHR However I don't know how often they need a longer stay at their home base LHR.
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