steman From Germany, joined Aug 2000, 1275 posts, RR: 8 Reply 1, posted (1 year 2 months 18 hours ago) and read 8958 times:
It looks great
Possibly the best livery to date on the A380
FRA has now regular A380 service from LH, SQ and KE
Sometimes QF sends its machines for maintenance.
In the future TG will also starts FRA service with the A380 and we
can expect EK to upgrade one of its three daily flights to the double decker
LH422 From Germany, joined Sep 2010, 278 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (1 year 2 months 17 hours ago) and read 8702 times:
I was actually hoping to see more than five A380 operators in FRA. And I never would have thought we would have to wait until 2012 to have more than one operator here. Are there any other candidates for A380 service into FRA?
LH422 From Germany, joined Sep 2010, 278 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (1 year 2 months 15 hours ago) and read 8320 times:
Quoting EK413 (Reply 7): I would say yes considering the load on the SYD-SIN-FRA route are usually full...
With Air Berlin a part of oneworld we might see a little increase although I already saw people booked TXL-FRA-SIN-SYD through Air Berlin before they joined oneworld. But all of the Air Berlin destinations out of FRA except TXL (BER) are leisure routes with low frequencies that are usually sold to German tourists:
aloges From Germany, joined Jan 2006, 8358 posts, RR: 47 Reply 9, posted (1 year 2 months 13 hours ago) and read 8153 times:
Quoting A388 (Reply 5): Is that a good location for aircraft photography througout the day
Alas, it's hardly a good location at any time of the day. It's too far away from the main action at T1 and the only runway photos you might hope to shoot are of departures from 25L and 25C. Even landings on those runways don't usually work out for the photographer. The place is open from 10:00 to 18:00 from April to November, so you do not get good sunlight and essentially have to hope for overcast skies... The spots near the runways 18 and 07L/25R are better, but harder to reach.
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A388 From Netherlands Antilles, joined May 2001, 9080 posts, RR: 13 Reply 10, posted (1 year 2 months 13 hours ago) and read 8135 times:
Quoting aloges (Reply 9): Alas, it's hardly a good location at any time of the day. It's too far away from the main action at T1 and the only runway photos you might hope to shoot are of departures from 25L and 25C. Even landings on those runways don't usually work out for the photographer. The place is open from 10:00 to 18:00 from April to November, so you do not get good sunlight and essentially have to hope for overcast skies... The spots near the runways 18 and 07L/25R are better, but harder to reach.
Okay thanks aloges, so I got excited for a few minutes only!!!
Daysleeper From UK - England, joined Dec 2009, 800 posts, RR: 1 Reply 11, posted (1 year 2 months 13 hours ago) and read 8052 times:
I’m not sure if it’s the livery or maybe the angle in which the photo is taken, but it looks fantastic. I mean I never hated the A380’s looks in the first place, but I didn’t really consider it to be good looking either…. Now I’m starting to wonder if it’s reputation as the “Ugly duckling” is really deserved…
aloges From Germany, joined Jan 2006, 8358 posts, RR: 47 Reply 12, posted (1 year 2 months 11 hours ago) and read 7370 times:
Quoting A388 (Reply 10): Okay thanks aloges, so I got excited for a few minutes only!!!
You're welcome. The KE A380 is scheduled to arrive at 17:45, so what you see in the second and third picture above is as good as the light gets at this time of the year. This A380 is also the first to use T2 (apart from the Airbus promo flight a long time ago), so the view of it is much better than that of LH's and SQ's birds.
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SASDC8 From Norway, joined Mar 2006, 663 posts, RR: 1 Reply 13, posted (1 year 2 months 7 hours ago) and read 5234 times:
Quoting LH422 (Reply 3): And I never would have thought we would have to wait until 2012 to have more than one operator here. Are there any other candidates for A380 service into FRA?
I thought SQ started flying the 380 into FRA in 2011?
As for other operators: EK, TG, and perhaps QF. QR and OZ when they get their 380's.
Semaex From Germany, joined Nov 2009, 769 posts, RR: 2 Reply 16, posted (1 year 1 month 4 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 2498 times:
Quoting steman (Reply 1): FRA has now regular A380 service from LH, SQ and KE
Sometimes QF sends its machines for maintenance.
In the future TG will also starts FRA service with the A380 and we
can expect EK to upgrade one of its three daily flights to the double decker
No better place to be at than FRA right now (if only the ongoing strikes didn't disturb the picture...)
Quoting robffm2 (Thread starter): Also yesterday the visitor terrace a T2 re-opened. Happy spotting.
I was there too. Quite a lot of visitors and the weather was just perfect. To be honest I found out about the KE A380 coming in when I was already on the deck, so even more of a reason to call it a perfect day.
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N14AZ From Germany, joined Feb 2007, 2315 posts, RR: 25 Reply 19, posted (1 year 1 month 4 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 1846 times:
Quoting aloges (Reply 18): I thought exactly the same when I first saw one docked, but according to one of those little info touchscreens, it was using a gate in T1C.
Thanks for the clarification, didn't know that this part is actually belonging to T1 (just checked the official map and you are correct).
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