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Will QF 93/4 MEL-LAX) Be An A380 By December 2008?

QantasHeavy From Australia, joined Jan 2005, 379 posts, RR: 1
Posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 3303 times:

Am booked on QF 93/4 for Christmas at the end of this year and was wondering if there is good reason to suspect the A380 will be established on the route by then. Am booked on a 747-400 but am guessing (hoping!) it could be an A380.

Any informed guesses? Thanks.

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WingedMigrator From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 2024 posts, RR: 57
Reply 1, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 3285 times:

It's quite possible.

The first Qantas A380 (VH-OQA) had its maiden flight today and will be delivered in October.
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/fl...ger/2008/01/a380-msn014-flies.html

QantasHeavy From Australia, joined Jan 2005, 379 posts, RR: 1
Reply 2, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 3276 times:

Thanks. Wow... MSN # 14! There are that many off the factory floor already in flight acceptance testing? I did not realise it will take another nine months after initial flight to be delivered. I have seen the new QF products for the A380 and they really look nice.

Vhqpa From Australia, joined Jul 2005, 1381 posts, RR: 1
Reply 3, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 3275 times:

If all goes to plan and there aren't delays in the delivery schedule QF will have 3 A380's by December which is enough for QF93/94 to go daily and one of the SYD/LAX flights to go 3x weekly.

Vhq

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WingedMigrator From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 2024 posts, RR: 57
Reply 4, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 3235 times:

Quoting QantasHeavy (Reply 2):
There are that many off the factory floor already in flight acceptance testing?

Twelve have now flown, and more than 20 are built in total. Sections for the fifth QF A380 (MSN029) went into the factory at Toulouse a few nights ago. Flightblogger has an excellent summary of the A380 production status.

Astuteman From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2005, 9135 posts, RR: 96
Reply 5, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 3095 times:

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Quoting QantasHeavy (Reply 2):
I did not realise it will take another nine months after initial flight to be delivered

Airbus have said that the A380 production process won't be fully "industrialised" until after the first 25 frames have been delivered, sometime in 2009.

Quoting WingedMigrator (Reply 4):
and more than 20 are built in total

Sadly, having to hand-wire these birds, and the intensity of the labour, means that there is a fair old queue at this process. IIRC Airbus have over 1000 EXTRA bodies currently employed on this activity.

Regards

QantasHeavy From Australia, joined Jan 2005, 379 posts, RR: 1
Reply 6, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 3083 times:

Will be great in a couple years when the 787 is on the scene and there are dozens of A380s in service. And when the "newness" of those wear off we'll have the A350s and 748i models rolling out!

AirlineAddict From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 415 posts, RR: 1
Reply 7, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 2954 times:

According to construction timelines at LAX, October 2008 will see the first regularly scheduled A380 flight. These are always subject to delay though...

Zkpilot From New Zealand, joined Mar 2006, 4739 posts, RR: 10
Reply 8, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 2796 times:

Quoting Vhqpa (Reply 3):
If all goes to plan and there aren't delays in the delivery schedule QF will have 3 A380's by December which is enough for QF93/94 to go daily and one of the SYD/LAX flights to go 3x weekly.

It will likely operate before that even with just the one aircraft.

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Zoltuger From New Zealand, joined Nov 2005, 2 posts, RR: 0
Reply 9, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 2631 times:

is there a particular reason why the new stylised kangaroo livery is not being deployed onto MSN 14?

Bill142 From Australia, joined Aug 2004, 8320 posts, RR: 9
Reply 10, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 2624 times:

Quoting Zoltuger (Reply 9):
is there a particular reason why the new stylised kangaroo livery is not being deployed onto MSN 14?

Because it was painted before the new livery was announced. Some have said it was this bird that was the catalyst for the livery change.

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