Elite From Hong Kong SAR, PRC, joined Jun 2006, 2328 posts, RR: 12 Posted (3 years 2 months 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 3108 times:
The A380 is coming to HKG on November 18th for 24 hours to test the equipment, such as the baggage-ramps and passenger gates. It will also go around Asia testing airport equipment, such as Tokyo, Seoul, and Bangkok's new Suvarnabhumi International Airport.
I'm going to try to get a few photos and a first hand experience of the A380
PEK18R36L From China, joined Dec 2005, 107 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (3 years 2 months 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 2399 times:
Quoting Elite (Thread starter): The A380 is coming to HKG on November 18th for 24 hours to test the equipment, such as the baggage-ramps and passenger gates. It will also go around Asia testing airport equipment, such as Tokyo, Seoul, and Bangkok's new Suvarnabhumi International Airport
Wise move. When the knives start to come out for the BubbaJet, send it to the one part of the world where it may actually make some serious economic sense to fly the thing and get pundits and airline execs reiterating how important VLAs are to the future of Asian air travel.
I'd bet the Tokyo flight will include some intense shmoozing of NH and JL as well. Good luck to the Airbus team: there's a little sign in Japanese alongside the taxiways at Japan's big international airports that says "Welcome to Boeing Country."
David
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Scouseflyer From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2006, 2746 posts, RR: 6 Reply 13, posted (3 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1890 times:
Quoting Breiz (Reply 7): If you count the Emirates as one and Germany and France as "visited", that's about right
(F, D, E, CO, SGP, AUS, MAL, CDN, GB, Abu Dhabi, Dubaï)
Didn't it go to Equador or Columbia really early on in the program too?
Carpethead From Japan, joined Aug 2004, 2313 posts, RR: 3 Reply 16, posted (3 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 1759 times:
Does anybody know which aircraft will make its journey over here?
Quoting PEK18R36L (Reply 5): Good luck to the Airbus team: there's a little sign in Japanese alongside the taxiways at Japan's big international airports that says "Welcome to Boeing Country."
Alessandro From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 18, posted (3 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 1534 times:
Scouseflyer, it was suppose to go to Bolivia but it was cancelled, trip to Tunis was also cancelled?
So far Australia, Canada, Colombia, Ethiopia, Germany, France, Ireland, Malaysia, Singapore, Spain, UAE and UK has been visited by the A380?
So Peoples rep of China, Rep of Korea, Japan and Thailand will be 13-16 countries visited?
Carpethead From Japan, joined Aug 2004, 2313 posts, RR: 3 Reply 21, posted (3 years 1 month 3 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 1312 times:
Quoting Centrair (Reply 17): I forgot are you at Hiroshima or Tokyo. When it comes, you gonna go up to see it?
It depends which aircraft comes. I have already seen the 1st & 4th aircraft.
Also the same weekend AM starts its MEX-TIJ-NRT flight. It might be worth the trip. I am sure there will be plenty of spotters in and around NRT that weekend.
Breiz From France, joined Mar 2005, 1389 posts, RR: 3 Reply 24, posted (3 years 1 month 3 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 1113 times:
Quoting Alessandro (Reply 23): Soundtrack, it was a French island. Guadeloupe I think?
The A380 visited both Guadeloupe and Martinique on the way back from Mendellin.
Extract from Airbus website:
"...Following the Medellin tests the aircraft flew to Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe for two days where it performed similar engine tests, including two take offs, at an altitude just above sea level. Emanuele Costanzo, flight test engineer, who traveled for the first time with the A380 outside of Toulouse, explained that further tests were conducted in Guadeloupe because although the altitude was comparable to Toulouse, the 27°C temperature was much hotter than conditions in Toulouse at this time of year.
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The aircraft also made a short trip from Guadeloupe to Fort-de-France, Martinique for a 'touch-and-go' landing to display the aircraft to the eager crowds."
RayChuang From United States, joined Jun 2000, 7113 posts, RR: 9 Reply 25, posted (3 years 1 month 3 weeks 4 hours ago) and read 1021 times:
Airbus will need to fly the A380 to HKG because SQ may try to put the A380 on the SQ 001/002 route (SIN to SFO via HKG) as soon as possible. Just the segment between HKG and SFO is probably SQ's most lucrative flight due to the huge number of Hong Kong expatriates (including me! ) living in northern California.
26 Blrsea: Don't forget the Indians filling up half the flight on LAX/SFO-SIN sectors
27 Aseem: folks it seems A380 was at ADD recently. My sis's flight was taxing out of the place on Oct 18th, when the pilot annouced about it and directed passen
28 Gr8Circle: Would the A380 have had any problems making the sharp right turn to line up with the runway at the old Kai Tak airport....?
29 A342: No, why should it ? In fact, it has proven to be quite agile.
30 TinkerBelle: I guess I'm going to HKG Nov 18th. I'm only an hour away now.
31 Poitin: I don't think it would have the least problem, as it is a really honey of an airplane to fly. I remember standing by the checkerboard in Kowloon watc
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