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2014-12-11 Europe

Is This The Beginning Of The End For The A380?

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Posted by Grunter 2014-12-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 "As God is my witness, I thought the A-380 could fly."

Posted by SteveS 2014-12-11 00:26|| 2014-12-11 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't forget the turkey graphic! :-)

Posted by gorb 2014-12-11 02:57|| 2014-12-11 02:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Is this the end for ~~Rocco~~ the 380?

Posted by Shipman 2014-12-11 06:21|| 2014-12-11 06:21|| Front Page Top

#4 SteveS gets my vote for SOTD (Snark Of The Day)

Posted by BrerRabbit 2014-12-11 06:24|| 2014-12-11 06:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Success will come to those airlines and aircraft that are flexible in destination and are efficient to operate. You operate as a network not as a mainline and feeders. People do not need a bunch of frivolous amenities on a plane like the A380. Extra weight.

For example, I can fly on Iceland Air from Anchorage to Keflavik along a great circle route to Europe, change planes there, and fly to lots of European destinations in a total of 11 hours. Annnnnnnd, I don't have to stop in Detroit.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2014-12-11 10:08|| 2014-12-11 10:08|| Front Page Top

#6 #1 - *snort*

Posted by Frank G 2014-12-11 10:13|| 2014-12-11 10:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Annnnnnnd, I don't have to stop in Detroit.

That's a bonus right there, anyway you look at it.

Posted by Woozle Scourge of the Wee Folk4194 2014-12-11 11:37|| 2014-12-11 11:37|| Front Page Top

#8 That's a bonus right there, anyway you look at it.

As long as you are high enough that a Saturday Night Special can't touch you.

Or maybe that's half the problem . . . .

Posted by gorb 2014-12-11 13:53|| 2014-12-11 13:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Our A380 parts production forecast ( 'waterfall' in Airbus-speak) has been sliding deliveries to the right for some time and it seems that every new forecast has bigger slides. We have parts in transit and we got a contract mod to delay for 60 days. And if anybody out there thinks the lazy B ( formerly of Seattle, now Chicago) writes crappy contracts, you need to take a look at the pile of doo-doo AB produces. They have some good people there but majority are arrogant French or Germans that still do not accept the Allies won the war ( French don't count, too busy hiding under the bed wetting themselves)

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-12-11 22:11|| 2014-12-11 22:11|| Front Page Top

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