Your right, Muslim transport machines will be very full.
The plane trip was bad enough,
now I really need some fresh air!
Posted on 01/18/2005 7:23:13 AM PST by highimpact
Utter nonsense. Did you read that in the National Enquirer?
Concorde wasn't just a French project.
The 'mannequin' is Tony Blair.
Sour grapes on the end of the Euro weanies.
A MANPAD does not have a range of 40 miles. Please explain how a MANPAD team picks up targets from 40 miles away and locks onto them? You do realise the size of the missile needed to take it out to a 40 mile range. This is not a Man portable systems you are describing. Pleae name the maker and type of this fantastic new MANPAD?
"Wait until on of these planes (God Forbid)drops out of the sky."
Glad to see that I wasn't the only one with that thought, LOL!
Your right, Muslim transport machines will be very full.
"Utter nonsense. Did you read that in the National Enquirer?"
No. Read the article. Longer wingspan, double decker, higher off the ground. Plus European airports are spending almost 800 milion dollars to reconfigure their terminals to fit the jets as per the article.
Question becomes, Will an airport in the US spend that money to accommodate the jet?
The Airbus A380 is so large that runways, docking stations and the rest have to be expanded or otherwise modified to accept its large size.
A few hubs will do this, mainly New York, Washington and LA, but the rest of the airports in the States won't. State and local governments just won't come up with the funding. So you end up with an airplane that is limited in its application and will eventually go the way of the Concorde.
The answer to your question is yes!
"U.S. airports make changes for A380
By Gary Stoller, USA TODAY
At least a dozen U.S. airports are bracing for the arrival of the Goliath of the skies — Airbus' new A380 jumbo jet.
They expect to spend hundreds of millions in airfield and gate modifications to prepare for the world's widest passenger jet before it lands for the first time in 2006.
New York John F. Kennedy plans to spend about $120 million. Charles Gargano, of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, says JFK plans to widen runways and shoulders of taxiways, and to strengthen bridges.
Five foreign airlines — Virgin Atlantic, Air France, Lufthansa, Singapore and Emirates — plan to begin flying the world's only twin-deck, four-aisle airliner into JFK in 2006 or 2007.
At Los Angeles International airport, where more than $53 million will be spent to prepare for the A380, officials expect Qantas to arrive with the new plane in November 2006 and Lufthansa, Virgin Atlantic, Air France, Singapore, Korean Air and Federal Express by the end of the decade.
In addition to alterations to some gates and terminals, LAX plans to spend $28 million to pour more concrete and upgrade airfield intersections. Also planned: reinforcement of a tunnel under two runways.
"We'll be one of the airports most affected," says Mark Massman of Los Angeles World Airports.
The airport authority expects to spend much less — up to "a few million" dollars — for taxiway improvements at its airport in Ontario, Calif., where UPS is considering operating A380 cargo flights.
At San Francisco International, officials say they don't have to spend a penny to get ready for the dawn of the A380 era. "We're ready to take them today," says spokesman Michael McCarron. The airport opened a new international terminal in December 2000 that has five gates for A380s, and has modified its taxiways.
At Chicago O'Hare, spokeswoman Annette Martinez says modifications for the A380 will be part of a $6.6 billion runway and expansion plan that awaits federal government approval. One gate at the international terminal should be ready to handle A380 flights in the third quarter of 2007, she says.
Outside O'Hare, some members of local community groups who oppose the expansion are not looking forward to the arrival of a huge new airliner. Jack Saporito, of The Alliance of Residents Concerning O'Hare, says the introduction of the A380, which weighs hundreds of tons, will degrade the environment by increasing air traffic and forcing expansion of runways."
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