Posted on 05/02/2005 1:45:35 AM PDT by Righty_McRight
FRANKFURT (AFX) - Airbus Industrie's first delivery of its new A380 will be delayed and only made in the second-half of 2006 instead of summer that year, Financial Times Deutschland said.
The report said Airbus had previously targeted the delivery to Singapore Airlines in the summer of 2006, or before June 30, if possible.
It quoted a spokesman for Airbus as saying yesterday that the company had signed a new agreement with Singapore Airlines which sets the delivery in the second- half of 2006.
It said when Singapore Airlines signed the order for 10 aircraft as well as options for a further 15 planes, it was announced then that the delivery would be in the first quarter of 2006.
I heard the Ghost of Howard Hughes was seen in the plane on its first flight and that although it went a bit further than the Spruce Goose it is still as big a boondoggle.
Surprised?
Red6
If Singapore Airlines has only one airport this thing can land on, it's going to be a very expensive sightseeing vehicle.
Nice try Airbus, but no thanks.
I would not discount the plane as a piece of technology. What is problematic is the business proposition it represents.
You are correct I am sure, The plane is probably a very good one, The problem seems to be that it will cost as much to make the airports able to use it as it costs to produce the plane, and do we really need a plane that holds 500 people and should that plane have its won Police and Fire Department on board.
I certainly hope US taxpayers won't be soaked to provide room for this dinosaur to land at our airports. Any airport authority that comes up with that bright idea should be fired immediately.
SA is probably "renegotiating" the deal now...getting better terms...they have AI over a barrel..
If they are, and if they succeed, more carriers will follow. It will be funny to watch the what the Chinese do.
I left Logan in Boston on an Airbus with over 300 on board.
We were headed to Europe. It took forever to make that lift..............Airbus with 500 and luggage? No way will I take that puppy.
I believe that there is a difference between the 747 when it was introduced and the A380 today.
The 747's and size and passenger capacity dictated some changes in Airports that would use it, BUT the 747 was an end toward which the commercial aviation industry was headed since the production of the commercial 4 engine in the late '30's that became the B-17.
In the more than 3 decades since it's introduction neither Boeing or anyone else has thought one-upping the 747 a good idea (though they have probably looked into it). That took the Frogs and their nutty desire to put the US in the shade in a cutting edge industry. These are the geniuses who built the Concord for the same stupid reason.
The EU is betting that bigger will be better. This question will be answered in a few very short years.
Airbus A380 and Microsoft Longhorn; separated at birth?
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