uaeflyer From United Arab Emirates, joined Nov 2006, 903 posts, RR: 1 Posted (1 year 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 2384 times:
Since when AF flying A380 to DXB. Do they really need all that capacity ? is it permanent or temporarily
EK flying more than 16 flights a week between CDG-DXB. It would be a nice competition if AF kept working on this route
emirates202 From United States of America, joined Nov 2011, 237 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (1 year 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 2091 times:
I saw it when I was at DXB last week. I thought it was a last minute aircraft switch! Turns out its been flying there for quite some time now.
N1120A From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 25852 posts, RR: 79 Reply 2, posted (1 year 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 2078 times:
I can see both a need for capacity and an increase in utilization.
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N1120A From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 25852 posts, RR: 79 Reply 6, posted (1 year 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 1961 times:
Quoting mikey72 (Reply 4): Why are AF sending their A380's on such short flights ?
Capacity is a big "why" (no pun intended).
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Asiaflyer From Singapore, joined May 2007, 1019 posts, RR: 1 Reply 9, posted (1 year 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 1874 times:
Quoting mikey72 (Reply 7): But with only a handful currently in operation and condsidering their network.....
I was thinking the same.
SIN has all along been mentioned as an AF A380 destination, but AF recently announced in increase from 7 to 10 weekly flights, with 77E flying the new additional flights.
Was actually expecting SIN to be an AF A380 destination in 2012.
N1120A From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 25852 posts, RR: 79 Reply 10, posted (1 year 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 1863 times:
Quoting mikey72 (Reply 7): But with only a handful currently in operation and condsidering their network.....
Aircraft will not always be utilized perfectly from a timing standpoint. This allows AF to profitably utilize the A380s in between LH runs.
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mikey72 From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2009, 1780 posts, RR: 2 Reply 11, posted (1 year 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 1836 times:
Quoting airbuseric (Reply 8): EK does the same. You use the aircraft on such routes because there is demand. Distance of the route is not an issue.
EK and AF have totally different strategy as airlines.
Quoting Asiaflyer (Reply 9): I was thinking the same.
SIN has all along been mentioned as an AF A380 destination, but AF recently announced in increase from 7 to 10 weekly flights, with 77E flying the new additional flights.
Was actually expecting SIN to be an AF A380 destination in 2012.
I think that in the case of AF and DXB the use of the A380 is to help countenance the 'A380 effect' of EK on the route.
Fair enough.
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thenoflyzone From Canada, joined Jan 2001, 1964 posts, RR: 12 Reply 16, posted (1 year 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 1118 times:
AF will remove the A380 from its DXB run for summer 2012. They need the frame, since they are resuming NRT, starting daily to LAX and increasing IAD to daily.
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