Moo From Falkland Islands, joined May 2007, 3600 posts, RR: 4 Posted (5 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 18019 times:
Airbus have delivered the third A380 to SQ.
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The third production Airbus A380 (MSN006) was handed over to Singapore Airlines on 08th March. Equipped with four Rolls Royce Trent 900 engines, the third aircraft for the first A380 operator follows the delivery of the first A380 (MSN003) on 15th October 2007 and second delivery (MSN005) on 11th January 2008.
Dalavia From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 398 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (5 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 17973 times:
Great news!
I am booked to fly with SQ on an A380 in early April. Now I can speculate which one of THREE planes I might be on.
Scouseflyer From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2006, 3255 posts, RR: 10 Reply 3, posted (5 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 17923 times:
Exellant, it's great to see these birds starting to get into service. With all these deliveries I wonder how long it will be before some wag points out that after the 9v-SKD is delivered the back-log of the A380 will be declining in 2008!
CHRISBA777ER From UK - England, joined Mar 2001, 5964 posts, RR: 63 Reply 4, posted (5 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 17755 times:
I saw SKA and SKB in SIN a few weeks ago and they are gorgeous birds.
Can you imagine what it will be like at LHR in ten years time?
BA *
QF *
EY
SQ *
EK *
QR
VS *
TG *
MH
KE *
CA (probably)
CX (probably) *
AI (probably)
NH (probably)
9W (probably)
JJ (probably)
The evening rush hour like we have at T3 at the moment is going to be amazing to see by 2018. All those marked with a '*' would probably be customers of the A389 if and when Airbus decide to launch it, which I see as a when, not an if. LHR is going to be an amazing place to watch the planes, thats for sure. Every other widebody is going to be a 787, add heaps of A330s, the odd A340, maybe still some 744s soldiering on, and of course the dozens of 77Ws that LHR will see in 24 hours by that time. Awesome....
What do you mean you dont have any bourbon? Do you know how far it is to Houston? What kind of airline is this???
Scouseflyer From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2006, 3255 posts, RR: 10 Reply 5, posted (5 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 17709 times:
Jfk777 From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 7350 posts, RR: 7 Reply 6, posted (5 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 17695 times:
When are 4,5 & 6 coming, I am waiting for SFO-HKG-SFO service on Singapore flight # 1/2.
CHRISBA777ER From UK - England, joined Mar 2001, 5964 posts, RR: 63 Reply 8, posted (5 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 17662 times:
Cloud4000 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 639 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (5 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 17631 times:
Quoting Scouseflyer (Reply 3): Exellant, it's great to see these birds starting to get into service. With all these deliveries I wonder how long it will be before some wag points out that after the 9v-SKD is delivered the back-log of the A380 will be declining in 2008!
This being said. Are there plans by Airbus to ramp up production in order to reduce the delays?
B777A340Fan From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 749 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (5 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 17461 times:
Quoting Lucianflyboy (Reply 10): Any idea where there 2nd and 3rd 380's will be deployed?
LXA340 From Switzerland, joined Nov 2006, 2104 posts, RR: 4 Reply 13, posted (5 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 17422 times:
Quoting Lucianflyboy (Reply 10): Any idea where there 2nd and 3rd 380's will be deployed?
The 3 planes will be used on LHR - SIN - SYD - SIN - LHR flights. If I am not mistaken the flights are so coordinated that you can fly from LHR to SYD with an A380? Next week the LHR operations will begin.
Lucianflyboy From St. Lucia, joined Jun 2005, 207 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (5 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 17351 times:
Quoting N14AZ (Reply 12): Good morning St. Lucia, why don't you simply read the link at the beginning of this thread
Thank your for that but the link didn't work when I tried it.
Quoting LXA340 (Reply 13): The 3 planes will be used on LHR - SIN - SYD - SIN - LHR flights. If I am not mistaken the flights are so coordinated that you can fly from LHR to SYD with an A380? Next week the LHR operations will begin.
EPA001 From Netherlands, joined Sep 2006, 3594 posts, RR: 36 Reply 15, posted (5 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 17310 times:
Great news indeed. More and more A380 start picking up their commercial activities. Soon we will also see them in the beautiful liveries of Qantas and Emirates!
KELPkid From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 5936 posts, RR: 4 Reply 16, posted (5 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 15152 times:
Quoting Jfk777 (Reply 6): When are 4,5 & 6 coming, I am waiting for SFO-HKG-SFO service on Singapore flight # 1/2.
I'm flying SQ1 in a week (once in a lifetime opportunity for me), and we don't get no stinkin' A380 The best I can hope for is to see one through the glass at SIN while transferring to PEN...
Celebrating the birth of KELPkidJR on August 5, 2009 :-)
CHRISBA777ER From UK - England, joined Mar 2001, 5964 posts, RR: 63 Reply 17, posted (5 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 15024 times:
Quoting KELPkid (Reply 16): Quoting Jfk777 (Reply 6):
When are 4,5 & 6 coming, I am waiting for SFO-HKG-SFO service on Singapore flight # 1/2.
I'm flying SQ1 in a week (once in a lifetime opportunity for me), and we don't get no stinkin' A380 The best I can hope for is to see one through the glass at SIN while transferring to PEN...
You may well see one, dont worry.
Why a once in a lifetime thing? Is it your honeymoon or something?
What do you mean you dont have any bourbon? Do you know how far it is to Houston? What kind of airline is this???
KELPkid From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 5936 posts, RR: 4 Reply 19, posted (5 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 14887 times:
Why a once in a lifetime thing? Is it your honeymoon or something?
It's expensive for middle class people to travel overseas from America, and my brother-in-law and his wife and children will be moving back to the 'states shortly...they are hositing my wife and I for our first visit to Asia [free lodging and board helps us out immensley from a financial stand point ]
Celebrating the birth of KELPkidJR on August 5, 2009 :-)
MCIGuy From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 1936 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (5 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 14423 times:
CHRISBA777ER From UK - England, joined Mar 2001, 5964 posts, RR: 63 Reply 23, posted (5 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 14381 times:
Quoting KELPkid (Reply 19): It's expensive for middle class people to travel overseas from America, and my brother-in-law and his wife and children will be moving back to the 'states shortly...they are hositing my wife and I for our first visit to Asia [free lodging and board helps us out immensley from a financial stand point ]
Excellent - well enjoy it, and do a TR if you can.
What do you mean you dont have any bourbon? Do you know how far it is to Houston? What kind of airline is this???
XJETFlyer From United States of America, joined Apr 2007, 326 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (5 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 12879 times:
When will we see these birds in America?
25 LXA340: Once Qantas will start using them to LAX and later this year EK will deploy them to JFK
26 MadameConcorde: LHR best spotter area? Not anymore. It was true when Concorde flew out every day/evening and landed. That was a truly spectaclular sight, one I would
27 KELPkid: IIRC, the next three A380's are destined for service on SQ1/SQ2 (SIN-HKG-SFO and back). I wouldn't be suprised if they started occasionally subbing a
28 Basefly: Fair enough.... but in the absence of Concorde thease big buses will be the true trademark of an major hub, and i for one cant wait to see 20-25 gatt
30 Whappeh: The next airline to get an A380 after SQ will be whom, and when?
31 RedFlyer: Size is always good...from a spectator standpoint. Nothing more exciting than seeing a bunch of smaller planes take off or land and then a huge beast
32 RayChuang: I don't think SQ will use the A380-800 on the SIN-NRT route until they get their sixth plane. But once the fifth plane arrives, SQ will start flying t
34 LACA773: Is there a tenative schedule start date for SQ 1 & 2 changing over to the 388? Do those two flights generally go out near 100% capacity the majority
35 Norcal773: I am sitting in the Gold Lounge in Changi's new terminal 3 right now and there's an A380 parked about 50 feet away in gate A2. Problem is I cannot see
36 MadameConcorde: I would have liked to see one of the BA Concordes landing at LHR with an ugly beast right on her tail. We know which of the two would have won the bea
37 Norcal773: How I wish it happens soon. I am flying SQ 2 SIN-HKG-SFO leaving in about 2 hours. This is my first flight on SQ1/2, I've done SQ 15/16 4 times and l
38 Bjwonline: Why is there so long between this delivery and the next?
39 Carpethead: See Reply 29. (Unless SQ's plans have changed.) SIN-NRT can be done with just a single aircraft. Thus the fourth aircraft would go on this route. Oth
41 Scouseflyer: There is a rumour that EK will get their first plane early but that is unconfirmed. If the schedule is stuck to SQ will get 3 more planes before EK g
42 Burkhard: Don't forget the first A350 in that soup - not that this changes anything of your argument. RAF will continue to use the VC10 and L1011. Cheers Burkh
43 OA260: Flights loaded for May SIN-NRT with A380 SIN NRT 0040 0830 SQ 636 R4 Z4 C0 J0 D0 S0 Y0 E0 B0 M0#380 SIN NRT 2340#0730 SQ 638 R0 Z4 C4 J4 D0 S9 Y9 E9
44 Thls06169: It's a shame it arrives so early. 05.25
45 MadameConcorde: SIA's latest news releases on their site: Singapore Airlines Receives Third A380 11 March 2008 Singapore Airlines took delivery of its third A380, the
47 Ramzi: It is likely EK will get their A380 in May and fly it on the DXB-JFK route. If I'm not mistaken, SQ will have gotten their forth before then. By the
48 N14AZ: Woaw! MSN 011 two months earlier as expected (if it turns out to be true). But on the other hand, EKs second A380 - MSN 013 ( http://www.flightglobal
49 Montereytom: QF should have 4 a/c by the end of the year according to CEO Dixon.
50 Ramzi: I honestly cannot remember exactly how this will work, but I am positive the first flight will be DXB-JFK. They could mix with the aircraft they curr
51 RayChuang: From what I've read, SQ can fly SIN-NRT with the A380-800 because they can do it with one plane (fly both ways within 24 hours). However, once SQ gets
52 Norcal773: I think they'll need 3 planes to do this route daily because after SQ2 leaves SIN for SFO, it doesn't return to SIN as SQ 1 until almost 40 hours lat
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The best I can hope for is to see one through the glass at SIN while transferring to PEN...
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