Posted on 02/14/2019 7:41:04 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Production on the Airbus A380 superjumbo jet will end, and deliveries will stop in 2021 after Airbus (EADSY) renegotiated an order with Emirates, the largest A380 customer.
...The Airbus A380 entered commercial service just 11 years ago and can only be accommodated at about a dozen airports worldwide due to its size.
...Meanwhile, the Boeing 747 looks to live on, even as demand from carriers also shrinks.
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
... guidelines, not actual rules...
I would like to tout that line, but I know that’s a slippery slope leading to the Tower of Babel.
Mark Twain
If a literary genius like Mark Twain cares nothing for the conscriptions of accepted spelling conventions, why should we?
I didn’t notice you misspelling of Boeing until you pointed it out.
Re the Short 360, indeed a miserable and slow airplane. I flew on one a couple times in the 1980s as well, operated by Dash Air, long defunct. For overall consistency of the experience, their ground staff and procedures stank in every respect at both ends of each flight. Thanks a lot - you have resurrected some bad memories ... :-)
Never flew the Short although I think the most lumbering flight I ever took was in a seaplane from Ft. Lauderdale to the Bahamas. Often flew the DC3 and always enjoyed the Gooney Bird.....telling my age now, aren’t I? :)
On long flights now I will fly only the Dreamliner. There is definitely a difference in jet lag.
If you fly to Europe, fly Norwegian if you can. They still have great customer service and don’t treat you like cattle. They fly the Dreamliner out of Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando, New York and a few other places. Flying more like it used to be.
I flew daily on the Short SD3-30 on Kwaj. I was a 30 minute trip but flew slow enough o get some great pics of the outer atoll.
The last Dash 8 I flew was in the Bahamas. It was a rust bucket that squeaked and rattled. I thought for sure parts were coming off of it in flight.
Meant that that the us based air lines treat you that way - not the other international carriers...in general.
LOL except British Airways which I refuse to ever fly with again.
The Bombardier has a very stout tubo prop...and a very impressive history of flying aircraft!
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