Linie 9
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Post by Linie 9 on May 4, 2013 20:02:58 GMT 1
...but I suspect that a political deal was cut between France and Germany. That's the only reason. Consequently Air France get their A380s in Hamburg. |
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Post by Baroque on May 4, 2013 20:07:27 GMT 1
...but I suspect that a political deal was cut between France and Germany. That's the only reason. Consequently Air France get their A380s in Hamburg. But then, LH gets theirs from Hamburg too, right? |
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Post by Linie 9 on May 4, 2013 20:29:36 GMT 1
I believe the reason was/is that the A380 cannot take off from XFW fully loaded (i.e. fuel wise) to make it to South East Asia / China / Korea etc.? Could be wrong though... It is completly wrong  The A380F needs a runway lengt of 2900m with the MTOW of 590t. That's why XFWs runway was prolonged from 2684 m to 3183m some years ago, see here binged.it/102CR0C |
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Post by Linie 9 on May 4, 2013 20:31:36 GMT 1
But then, LH gets theirs from Hamburg too, right? Sure - otherwise I couldn't have made shots of Air France's and Lufthansa's first deliveries  |
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Post by Linie 9 on May 4, 2013 21:11:09 GMT 1
Is it middle east or just Emirates (beside Europe) would be my next question A very good question. Near East and Middle East mean different regions in English and German. I think this is the area ment ("naher Osten/near East"):  from wikipedia |
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