Uh oh. Should I include a "Sarcasm" tag these days?"
Remember when the biggest rockets, jet planes, bridges, buildings, dams etc were in America?
Uh oh. Should I include a "Sarcasm" tag these days?"
Bigger than the Spruce Goose?
I’ve flown an Emirates A380 twice from JFK to Dubai round trip.A nice aircraft for sure...but no better than a 777 or 747.They’re talking about using a 380 between Boston and Dubai which I’d love to see.One of several landing patterns into Logan takes aircraft about 300 feet over a great viewing spot in South Boston.They pass so close overhead that you can almost reach up and grab the landing gear.
I flew on an Air France A380 two years ago from Washington Dulles to Paris Charles de Gaulle. Air France is one of Delta’s partners and I cashed in some Delta SkyMiles to sit in Business Class, which is in the front of the upper deck (interestingly, there is a 9 seat First Class cabin on the lower deck just behind the flight deck). In AF’s configuration, the plane had a total 528 seats.
Dulles built a special gate complex for the 380, which consists of two jetways, one connecting the lower deck, the other the upper deck. I’ve never walked uphill on a jetway before or since.
They served a good French champagne and steak and lobster that night, as well as a premium calvados after dinner. 6 hours 45 minutes never went by so quickly.
Even at 38000 ft......that'sa big airplane.
I regularly watch the Lufthansa A380 land in Miami around 2pm each day. Due to its’ size, it actually seems to be moving extremely slow on approach like it shouldn’t be able to hang in the air the way it does. I could never make it through a 15 hour flight no matter where it was going or how much alcohol was available. Yikes.