It was frightening the smaller aircraft:
Posted on 02/19/2019 6:32:53 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
...The A380 might have built more momentum if not for production debacles. Around the time of the first test flight in 2005, Airbus realized it had underestimated the complexity of wiring the superjumbo. Managers discovered that French and German designers had used incompatible software.
...More setbacks followed. The engine of an A380 blew up during a passenger flight in 2010. Nobody was hurt, but it drew negative attention to the plane. Wing cracks discovered on many A380s led to costly repairs.
Customers, including Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd., Air France-KLM SA and Qantas Airways Ltd. , canceled orders.
The snafu exposed deep cultural rifts inside the plane maker, which was led by French and German co-CEOs—a structure designed to appease government shareholders. In 2006, during the depth of the A380 crisis, Airbus ousted senior French and German executives. The next year it abandoned the co-CEO structure altogether.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Ego trip for wannabe Euro-businesspersons.
Look at us! 50 years after Boeing created the 747, we made something even bigger!
Of course, Boeing made a great big airplane, and we made a great big pile of excrement, but I still feel like a boss, so it’s all good!
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The one and only time I rode on an Airbus product was enough for me. On the takeoff roll in Munich the thing shook so bad that pieces of it fell off.
I don’t know how it got into the air, but after it got airborne I came to the realization that it must return to the earth. It was a LONG flight.
I like Airbus but I never flew on the A380. I think the A330 series is pretty sleek. Not sure if I flew on that one either but it must be a smooth ride.
How about all the airports that had to build special loading ramps for the A380.
Copy the title, paste into google search, click on link.
Viola, you can read the article in full.
Viola - Voila.
Should have forced Airbus to pay for all that.
I only worry about the take off, because once that's been successful I know I'll eventually be back on the ground.
One way or another...
Any mention of the burden on airports that needed to reinforce runways, taxiways, new terminals, etc?
Surprisingly it did not come up?
Not even in the comments.
It was a bad bet that airlines would want to fly fewer flights to a limited number of hubs.
European elites are real good at fighting the last war. Just look at the history of the Maginot line.
It's the inbreeding that does it.
I saw a couple them parked at gates at the Paris airport in 2014. They didn’t seem that big to me.
It is all about fuel burn per seat mile. Click on the link to see the stats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft#Long-haul_flights
The A380 had inferior fuel burn to the 747, the 777 and it is not even close to the 787. In addition if you can not fill that monster up with passengers its fuel burn per seat mile is obscene.
The A380 is a technological marvel. It is an economic disaster due to a state run business designing airplanes instead of market forces.
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It was frightening the smaller aircraft:
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