rwy04lga From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 2142 posts, RR: 7 Reply 1, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 14937 times:
What's up with all these A380 incidents?
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NZ107 From New Zealand, joined Jul 2005, 5672 posts, RR: 40 Reply 3, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 14710 times:
Quoting kiwiandrew (Thread starter): If it is here much longer there may be the opportunity to get a picture of 2 EK A380s in AKL together .
Probably won't be a very good shot I might add! The only views would be from airside and the likelihood of the A380 being sent to the remote stand would be high.. So you might get a picture of 2x A380s in AKL but one might be either very small or pretty much blocked from view!
Haggis73 From New Zealand, joined Jul 2010, 81 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 14569 times:
Quoting kiwiandrew (Thread starter): Does anyone know what has happened ? If it is here much longer there may be the opportunity to get a picture of 2 EK A380s in AKL together .
On push back last night, a warning came up in the cockpit indicating that all the cabin doors had opened.
There should be 2 A380's there today. I've been called back into work to refuel the delayed 380 plus Air Tahiti Nui that went tech yesterday with an engine fault. I'll take the camera in.
IndianicWorld From Australia, joined Jun 2001, 2403 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 13810 times:
The A388 is having a very hard time of it indeed. In reality though, it is no worse than most other fleet types, which have tech issues quite often. Being the biggest though doesn't help, as it comes with a very sizable presence.
Lets hope that the mindset does not become poisoned around the world about this plane, in trial by media
spacecadet From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 3249 posts, RR: 14 Reply 9, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 13607 times:
Quoting IndianicWorld (Reply 8): In reality though, it is no worse than most other fleet types, which have tech issues quite often.
Yes, but it's not like there are thousands of A380's flying around (as there are, say, 737's). Every airplane type has tech issues, but the A380 seems to have them in greater proportion given the relatively few of them that there are.
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Airvan00 From Australia, joined Oct 2008, 710 posts, RR: 1 Reply 10, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 13486 times:
Quoting spacecadet (Reply 9): but the A380 seems to have them in greater proportion given the relatively few of them that there are
Thats only your perception. People do get excited if there are 2 A380's in the one place and they post it on a.net. They don't give a damm if there are 2 747's there as well (or 10 737's)
IndianicWorld From Australia, joined Jun 2001, 2403 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 13318 times:
Quoting Airvan00 (Reply 10): Thats only your perception. People do get excited if there are 2 A380's in the one place and they post it on a.net. They don't give a damm if there are 2 747's there as well (or 10 737's)
Did you get confused as to the meaning of the statement that was made?
It had to do with the fact there are less planes of the type in service, meaning that issues are magnified. It had nothing to do with what gets people excited from a planespotters POV.
Airvan00 From Australia, joined Oct 2008, 710 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 12737 times:
Quoting IndianicWorld (Reply 11): Did you get confused as to the meaning of the statement that was made?
No i didn't. I have yet to see any facts that support the notion that the A380 is out of service more often (on a unit basis) than other types in their first couple of years since EIS.
It is the fact that the A380 generates more press and internet that gives that perception.
IndianicWorld From Australia, joined Jun 2001, 2403 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 12605 times:
Quoting Airvan00 (Reply 12): No i didn't. I have yet to see any facts that support the notion that the A380 is out of service more often (on a unit basis) than other types in their first couple of years since EIS.
It is the fact that the A380 generates more press and internet that gives that perception.
Of course its perception, but its one that the media seems to drum home all the time.
hb88 From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2005, 809 posts, RR: 32 Reply 14, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 11897 times:
People tend to notice a parked A380 and the novelty value of, for example, a loading truck whacking a wing is enough to be a 'duh' spot in a newspaper on a slow news day.
I'm sure there are some public A380 dispatch reliability data floating around on the internets somewhere.
jreuschl From United States of America, joined Jul 2009, 412 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 6708 times:
How does the A380 compare to other aircraft designs that are new? How many issues did the 777 have in the first few years? How many will the 787 have?
glideslope From United States of America, joined May 2004, 1541 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 4527 times:
Didn't take long for this thread to digress.
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fca767 From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2006, 1720 posts, RR: 0 Reply 20, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 3738 times:
Quoting rwy04lga (Reply 1): What's up with all these A380 incidents?
Nothing when you look at these airlines, AF,LH and Most Significanly the full long runner of the A380 and the most in fleet Singapore Airlines.
It's probably more of a new engineering team rather than anything else, or something logistical that the other airlines have got finely tuned. At least for Singapore as they've had them the longest of 3 years
alphascan From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 936 posts, RR: 14 Reply 23, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 3569 times:
Quoting NZ107 (Reply 3): Probably won't be a very good shot I might add!
Very nice shot Haggis. Well done.
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billreid From Netherlands, joined Jun 2006, 847 posts, RR: 0 Reply 25, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 2433 times:
Quoting glideslope (Reply 16): Didn't take long for this thread to digress.
Love it from a financial calculation perspective expect the cost of ferry in one acft and ferry out the other or cancel two full segments to cost EK well over 1.3MM$$.
This is the problem of having such a bib bird go AOG.
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