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Post by Salim.Bin.Tamim on Oct 13, 2021 11:08:15 GMT 1
Emirates A380 EOE, which is still stored will take the year of the 50th livery, before she under Orange Expo 2020 livery.
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Post by Salim.Bin.Tamim on Nov 15, 2021 11:18:10 GMT 1
Emirates A380 EES the 3rd one will take the full Expo 2020 livery
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vhaq
Final Assembly Line stage 1
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Post by vhaq on Nov 17, 2021 21:03:12 GMT 1
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vhaq
Final Assembly Line stage 1
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Post by vhaq on Dec 9, 2021 13:24:03 GMT 1
The delivery schedule is out. Note the tweet's OP made a mistake of the delivery date of EVR, it is today the 9th, not tmr.
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starbucks
Roll Out Flight Line in Toulouse
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Post by starbucks on Feb 19, 2022 13:07:58 GMT 1
I guess this is the best place to post this since it involves an ex-EK frame: Airbus is organising a auction where you can get yourself a part of A380 interior The auction website mentions MSN013 (EK2) www.marclabarbe.com/en/vente-aeronautique-a380/
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vhaq
Final Assembly Line stage 1
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Post by vhaq on Feb 23, 2022 18:46:34 GMT 1
www.airlineratings.com/news/emirates-tim-clark-threatens-cancellation-of-777-9/Articles mainly about the 777X and 787, but there are some details about what EK could do with the A380 fleet that should not go unoticed "We got to look beyond Covid if we want to stay in business. We do see some holes appearing in our plan in 2024/2025. We try to deal with it by extending aircraft lives and trying to advance some of the new aircraft, which currently will only come from 2024. Life extension will affect about 120 aircraft, 80 of them A380s, plus about 40 or 50 Boeing 777-300ERs. The exact numbers haven’t been fixed, it’s a moveable feast. Their life will be extended by six to ten years each. Our first A380, A6-EDA, went out of service already after 13 years, but these aircraft can fly much longer as long as you support them. We had six A380s come in last year, and if you give them a 15-year life we are into the mid-2030s anyway. The other ones we are going to extend have plenty of legs in there. The A380 is designed for 19,000 cycles, and we got to persuade Airbus to extend their lives to 25,000 or even 30,000 cycles. I am sure there won’t be a problem with the regulators. That allows us to get meaningful lives out of them. The ones we already decommissioned didn’t get anywhere near that limit. And I’m sure there won’t be any technical obstacles to do it."
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kronus
in service - 1 year
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Post by kronus on Feb 25, 2022 11:21:04 GMT 1
Tim Clark about EK a380 operations: "One of the problems we have with the A380 is the gear coming up for replacement or overhaul, which was supposed to happen every ten years and we extended that to twelve years with the regulator. Each set of gear is worth US$20 million. So we said let’s take the old ones off, use them as a temporary gap while those are overhauled. We also recycle other usable parts from retired A380s, even seats. But cutting up the A380 fleet stops there, after these five are retired, all the other aircraft remain. In fact, where we started to drop some, I just decided to bring them back into the program."
www.airlineratings.com/news/emirates-chief-sir-tim-clark-talks-growth-retirement/
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kronus
in service - 1 year
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Post by kronus on Mar 30, 2022 5:35:49 GMT 1
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A6-EOA
in Convoy en route to Toulouse
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Post by A6-EOA on Apr 18, 2022 17:15:36 GMT 1
Looking at a Satellite View of Dubai World Central on Google Maps, you can see the remains of A6-EDA along with another A380 being parted out with its tail missing. Would this be A6-EDF, which is marked as Stored on Planespotters? This forum has A6-EDD down as being scrapped but this was not one of the 5 A380's due to be retired.
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kronus
in service - 1 year
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Post by kronus on May 2, 2022 14:52:28 GMT 1
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