Both Boeing Co. and its European rival, Airbus, emerged with a piece of British Airways’ $8.2 billion order for 36 new long-range aircraft today.
The London-based carrier said it is ordering 24 Boeing 787 Dreamliners and 12 Airbus A380 superjumbo jets. The airline also took options on seven more A380s and 18 787s.
In splitting the order, [...]
The first Airbus A380 for Dubai-based Emirates Airline undertook its maiden flight on 4 September from the airframer’s Toulouse headquarters. Emirates will be the first customer to receive the GP7200-powered version of the A380, with deliveries slated to begin in August next year.
Singapore Airlines – the first airline in the world to fly the new Airbus A380 – is preparing for the first commercial flight of the new double-decker jumbo jet, from Singapore to Sydney and return. … In response to requests from people all over the world to be passengers on the first flight, Singapore Airlines will auction the seats on global online marketplace, eBay.
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Airbus’ A380 has received approval from both the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to be operated on runways with a width of 45 metres (150 feet) or more. … “Since the very beginning of the A3XX concept phase in 1996 Airbus has established a sustainable dialogue with regulators, airports, airlines, ground handlers and pilots as well as trade-associations, with the objective to make it fully compliant with the average airport environments.
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Airbus said Friday it has once again raised the break-even point for the troubled A380.
In 2005, Airbus was saying that it would need to sell only 270 of the planes to break even. Last year, that jumped to 420 planes as a result of costly wiring problems that delayed delivery of the A380 by up [...]
Airbus has painted the first A380 destined to enter airline service with launch operator Singapore Airlines (SIA) later this year. Aircraft MSN003 emerged from the manufacturer’s Hamburg paint hangar following installation of its passenger cabin in March, and testing of the associated systems last month. Several passenger windows in the forward lower deck have been [...]
That 6% burning issue about fuel
So where do you go to get the real story? As you may have read further below there are interesting numbers on fuel burn. The best place to go is an airline that has data from both planes because they bought both. So here is some data from the only [...]
As reported the A380 visited for the first time the United States last week. PupularMechanics had a reporter on-board during the test flight inside the US.
They published a nicely done video report from the experience flying with largest passenger plane on the planet. The particular A380 is configured for 520 passengers. The video shows [...]
A U.S.-based design company is nearing completion of an interior design for a prospective customer for the VIP version of the Airbus A380 “Flying Palace” and has released an image to the public. Airbus revealed that in February this year an unnamed customer had signed a letter of intent to purchase a VIP A380 , although the client is yet to sign a firm order for the aircraft.
Airbus says the potentially hazardous maximum energy rejected take-off demonstration for the A380 that it undertook last weekend was a “non-event”, with the aircraft and systems behaving exactly as predicted. “The test went exactly as planned,” says Airbus chief test pilot Jacques Rosay, who was at the controls of Rolls-Royce Trent 900-powered A380 MSN001 (F-WWOW) alongside vice-president Airbus flight test division Claude Lelaie for the trial at the Istres test airfield in southern France on 4 March (pictured below).
