A380 Production Sadness

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You have the flexibility to react to changing markets more easily with 2 smaller. The decision on what to buy/lease has a lead time, you can be stuck with the that for many years as a commitment that is difficult to get out of. So a small number of large aircraft will work for most international carriers as they have their trunk routes which don't change often.
 
Personally, I like the 350. Usefully bigger than one alternative, yet small enough to be useful on thinner routes.
 
Actually there are some much better shapes for aircraft, but for whatever reason they've not been pursued for airliners. Make good stealth bombers though.

I'd say that the reason is that Joe Blog is used to an aircraft being a tube with two wings and would be scared of a different design, no matter how efficient.
 
I'd say that the reason is that Joe Blog is used to an aircraft being a tube with two wings and would be scared of a different design, no matter how efficient.
Far more likely to be mundane economic & legislative reasons determined by accountants such as packaging requirements (space for passengers), maintenance requirements (they need to fit in existing infrastructure hangars) and operational reasons such as getting the paying passengers on/off using existing terminals and airbridge infrastructure.

A radical departure away from the tube+two wings shape, around which the entire international airport infrastructure has been built would require an incalculable bill to replace it all. One that would last for decades during the transition period until all old tube+two wing aircraft had been retired from service. I doubt the costs could ever be recouped in anyone's lifetime. Hence, isn't worth doing.
 
Far more likely to be mundane economic & legislative reasons determined by accountants such as packaging requirements (space for passengers), maintenance requirements (they need to fit in existing infrastructure hangars) and operational reasons such as getting the paying passengers on/off using existing terminals and airbridge infrastructure.

A radical departure away from the tube+two wings shape, around which the entire international airport infrastructure has been built would require an incalculable bill to replace it all. One that would last for decades during the transition period until all old tube+two wing aircraft had been retired from service. I doubt the costs could ever be recouped in anyone's lifetime. Hence, isn't worth doing.

Agree.

It would be all about the money, think of airports which had to spend it to accommodate the 380. Small incremental changes are cheaper.
 
There's quite an age split between the oldest and youngest. Perhaps the last 4 don't need a repaint yet.
 
Now we just need some pax airlines to order some (looking at you QF), and we're set... :cool:

There is absolutely zero chance of that. As far as I can tell it offers nothing over the 777/350. Freight is a totally different world.

Even with the extra order from EK, the 380 line could well shut down before the 747. It will also be interesting to see what happens to the orders from airlines that now don't want the aircraft. Not just the airlines that have disappeared, but Virgin and QF. I wouldn't have thought you couldn't just walk away....
 
If the 380 line shuts down before the 747 line then the 747 line might pick up, but I doubt the other way around.

Airlines that cancel will have lost their deposit which is used to pre-order materials.
 
VH-OQD scheduled as QF6053 departing SYD on Sunday/Monday. Believed to be heading to DXB to be the first A380 repaint
(And presumably the one requiring landing gear fixes)
 
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VH-OQD scheduled as QF6053 departing SYD on Monday. Believed to be heading to DXB to be the first A380 repaint
(And presumably the one requiring landing gear fixes)
It might actually be -OQB after arriving from LHR? Something doesn't seem to be adding up looking at flight history.

Edit: Perhaps not. I think FR24 might be confused.
 
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What happened to the Japanese Skymark 6 A380 which were cancelled mid production by the manufacturer back in 2014?. I know at least one went to EK.
 
What happened to the Japanese Skymark 6 A380 which were cancelled mid production by the manufacturer back in 2014?. I know at least one went to EK.
Only 2 had started being put together when Airbus cancelled the order. The near complete aircraft was converted to EK. The other was taken for parts.
ANA ordered 3, brand new.
 
The first paragraph from the newly established Qantas Group Flight Academy:

“Whether it’s flying a Dash 8 across to Longreach or landing a Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Los Angeles, our pilots say they have the best office in the world.”

Nothing about the quads..
I suspect they have enough quad pilots in the pipeline for a fixed or decreasing number of quad aircraft that new entrants will be flying twins only??
 
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