123 From Bolivia, joined Nov 2003, 739 posts, RR: 4 Posted (7 years 4 months 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 2412 times:
After many opinions have been posted regarding "if" "if not" the A-380 will fly to LPB from Medellín, are there new positions from Airbus regarding the originally forseen onwardflight Medellín - LPB?
123 From Bolivia, joined Nov 2003, 739 posts, RR: 4 Reply 2, posted (7 years 4 months 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 2384 times:
Hello Bongo, thanks, keep me updated please once you have news.
Here the press still goes with "yes" and "no" and the airport authorities don´t give infos maybe because they have no idea or maybe because they have been commanded by Airbus to keep the mater confidential.
Breiz From France, joined Mar 2005, 1808 posts, RR: 2 Reply 3, posted (7 years 4 months 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 2323 times:
Quoting 123 (Thread starter): After many opinions have been posted regarding "if" "if not" the A-380 will fly to LPB from Medellín, are there new positions from Airbus regarding the originally forseen onwardflight Medellín - LPB?
According to Airbus last week (i.e before the flight to Medellin), the A380 does not fly to La Paz.
Leelaw From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (7 years 4 months 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 2313 times:
FI 01/12/06:
"...Airbus will not comment on the test campaign until it is complete, but MSN004 is expected to fly on to La Paz, Bolivia where hot-and-high altitude performance tests are traditionally undertaken. During these trials, the aircraft will carry out take-offs and landings at high temperatures at El Alto airport in La Paz, which has an airfield elevation of in excess of 13,000ft (3,940m)."
Breiz From France, joined Mar 2005, 1808 posts, RR: 2 Reply 6, posted (7 years 4 months 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 2252 times:
Quoting Breiz (Reply 3): Quoting 123 (Thread starter):
After many opinions have been posted regarding "if" "if not" the A-380 will fly to LPB from Medellín, are there new positions from Airbus regarding the originally forseen onwardflight Medellín - LPB?
According to Airbus last week (i.e before the flight to Medellin), the A380 does not fly to La Paz.
Quoting Leelaw (Reply 4): "...Airbus will not comment on the test campaign until it is complete, but MSN004 is expected to fly on to La Paz, Bolivia where hot-and-high altitude performance tests are traditionally undertaken. During these trials, the aircraft will carry out take-offs and landings at high temperatures at El Alto airport in La Paz, which has an airfield elevation of in excess of 13,000ft (3,940m)."
Maybe was I not specific enough.
I was told (emphasis on told, it's not a second-hand rumour) by the Airbus people who are quoted by Flight International, that MSN004 does NOT go to La Paz.
At least not this time.
123 From Bolivia, joined Nov 2003, 739 posts, RR: 4 Reply 7, posted (7 years 4 months 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 2192 times:
Quoting Breiz (Reply 6): MSN004 does NOT go to La Paz.
At least not this time.
Thanks for update and info. Should in the future the A-380 be forseen to fly to LPB for tests, may I ask you to kindly start a thread to inform about that?
Breiz From France, joined Mar 2005, 1808 posts, RR: 2 Reply 8, posted (7 years 4 months 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 2135 times:
Quoting 123 (Reply 7): Thanks for update and info. Should in the future the A-380 be forseen to fly to LPB for tests, may I ask you to kindly start a thread to inform about that?
I'll certainly do. That's actually why I asked Airbus in the first place.
Breiz From France, joined Mar 2005, 1808 posts, RR: 2 Reply 10, posted (7 years 4 months 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 2021 times:
The Colombian trip of F-WWDD is now on Airbus' website. http://events.airbus.com/A380/default1.aspx
F-WWDD is supposed to spend a week there, so the return flight should be on the 16th-17th.
A388 From Netherlands Antilles, joined May 2001, 9067 posts, RR: 13 Reply 11, posted (7 years 4 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 1995 times:
Thanks for the information Breiz. So the A380 will not be leaving Colombia today or this weekend as mentioned in other threads? Also the A380 will not be going to Guadeloupe or Martinique in the Caribbean?
Breiz From France, joined Mar 2005, 1808 posts, RR: 2 Reply 12, posted (7 years 4 months 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1956 times:
Quoting A388 (Reply 11): Also the A380 will not be going to Guadeloupe or Martinique in the Caribbean?
A388, I do not really know about the French Caribbean.
As said before, Airbus does not announce the test flights in advance.
The fact that it is not mentioned on the webpage does not mean it's not going to happen. Kind of frustrating.
Summa767 From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2004, 2385 posts, RR: 7 Reply 13, posted (7 years 4 months 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1938 times:
Quoting A388 (Reply 9): Does anyone know the local departure time this saturday from MDE?
It was reported that the A380 would have left MDE at 10am today local time, so 1500 GMT. A388, have a look in 30 minutes to see if ithappens to overfly you! Last I heard it was not going direct to TLS.
I saw that. Th PR people at Airbus don't have the facts right! Not, at least, on the altitude of the airport: It is over 7000 ft, and not 5000 as they report. (They may have confused it with the airport near the city centre of Medellin (EOH), that is only used for airplanes with up to 50 seats nowdays -though it did have the 747 once and 707s, 727s and so on a regular basis until the new airport was built 20 years ago)
That makes me think that they may not be right about the time the plane was to spend in MDE.
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