Consegne e notizie sugli A380


Mikkio

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British Airways has revealed details about their A380 configurations, while confirming that the first one will be delivered in July next year (MSN095–currently being outfitted in XFW), and announcing that the second one will be delivered in August (MSN121–currently in Final Assembly in TLS), and the third one in October (MSN124–currently in Body Join in TLS).

Configuration as follows:

14 First Class seats (main deck),

97 Club World seats:
44 seats on the main deck in a 2:4:2 configuration
53 seats on the upper deck in a 2:3:2 configuration

55 World Traveller Plus seats in a 2:3:2 configuration (upper deck)

303 World Traveller seats:
199 seats in a 3:4:3 configuration (main deck)
104 seats in a 2:4:2 configuration (upper deck)


http://a380production.com/
 

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http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx_12_12_2012_p0-527595.xml

Secondo John Leahy la firma di un importante ordine per l'A380 e' imminente. Non e' pero' specificato se l'ordine e' importante per il numero di frame (potrebbe essere solo un consistente top-up order di qualche compagnia che gia' lo opera) o importante perche' e' di un nuovo operatore. Giusto per la cronaca, il display model dell'A380 e' appena stato a Hong Kong via Honolulu.
 

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Un aggiornamento sulle consegne degli A380, che con il terzo di Thai arrivano a 95.

Sono stati consegnati 95 A380 su 262 ordinati.
- 29 (su 90 ordinati) con Emirates;
- 19 (su 24 ordinati) con Singapore Airlines;
- 12 (su 20 ordinati) con Qantas;
- 10 (su 17 ordinati) con Lufthansa;
- 8 (su 12 ordinati) con Air France;
- 6 (su 10 ordinati) con Korean Air;
- 4 (su 5 ordinati) con China Southern Airlines;
- 4 (su 6 ordinati) con Malaysian Airlines;
- 3 (su 6 ordinati) con Thai.

Le altre compagnie che hanno ordinato l'A380 ma ancora non hanno ricevuto esemplari sono: 1 Privato, 2 Air Austral (quasi certa la cancellazione), 6 Asiana, 12 British Airways, 10 Etihad, 10 Hong Kong Airlines, 5 Kingfisher Airlines (quasi certa la cancellazione), 10 Qatar Airways, 6 Skymark Airlines, 4 Transaero, 6 Virgin Atlantic.

Per ora nel 2012 sono stati consegnati 28 A380, due in meno del target di 30 che si era prefissata Airbus. Vedremo se riusciranno a consegnare gli ultimi due (due EK) prima del 31.
 
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El famoso Airbus 380 (A380), el avión más grande del mundo (con el permiso del B747-800), llegará por primera a España en un vuelo regular el próximo 24 de febrero. Será de la mano de Emirates, como ya se esperaba, y aterrizará en el Aeropuerto de Barcelona a las 12:10 de la mañana procedente de Dubai. El motivo: el congreso del móvil, el Mobile World Congress (MWC), que arranca el día siguiente en la Ciudad Condal.

Los 571 pasajeros que quieran volar en el coloso tendrán una segunda oportunidad para conseguir un billete en la aeronave. Emirates también usará el A380 para que los visitantes de la feria de tecnología móvil más importante puedan regresar a casa el 1 de marzo. Cabe recordar que el MWC reúne a profesionales de todo el planeta, con una presencia importante de visitantes asiáticos. A lo que se debe sumar la “expectativa” que genera la aeronave en España para conseguir vender todos los billetes, aseguran desde la aerolínea.

Para hacer la oferta más atractiva, Emirates mantendrá los precios de los billetes habituales. No hará ningún recargo por cambiar la aeronave que opera habitualmente esta ruta. El A380 tiene 427 plazas en clase turista, 76 asientos que se pueden convertir en cama en business y 14 suites en primera. Las tarifas van desde unos 700 euros hasta los 4.300, dependiendo del asiento que se elija.

El cambio de aeronave servirá para probar cómo funciona el avión en la ruta Dubai-Barcelona, una de las firmes candidatas a ser operada de forma habitual con el A380. El director para España y Portugal de la aerolínea, Fernando Suárez, recuerda que es una opción que está sobre la mesa aunque no está prevista “a corto plazo”.

Hasta el próximo 24 de febrero, el A380 sólo se habría visto en España en vuelos chárters puntuales.

fonte: http://www.02b.com/es/notices/2012/..._barcelona_por_el_congreso_del_movil_4822.php



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DXB-BCN 24/2
BCN-DXB 01/3
 

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Airbus A380 -861 111 A6-EED Emirates delivery 28dec12 XFW-DXB ex F-WWAQ

Consegnato anche il 31mo A380 per Emirates ed il 30mo quest'anno. Il target di 30 e' stato raggiunto, anche se per il 2013 Airbus prevede di consegnare meno di 30 aerei (non sono specificati quanti); in parte questo e' dovuto al problema con le ali.
 

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Emirates Chief Says 30 More A380s Needed for New Routes

Emirates, the world’s biggest airline by international traffic, said it’s studying “ways and means” to accommodate an order for 30 more Airbus SAS A380 superjumbos.

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Emirates President Tim Clark said, “We know what we want to do, we know where we could put more than 90 A380s today. It’s a question of can we actually fit them in? The economics of Houston are very powerful. That would be an extremely attractive proposition.” Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg

Curfews at destination airports and a lack of space at the carrier’s Dubai base are the main constraints on lifting an existing order for 90 of the world’s biggest passenger planes to 120, President Tim Clark said today in an interview.

Emirates, the biggest A380 customer, has exploited the Gulf’s position at the heart of inter-continental flight paths to build a hub served by waves of departures, stripping traffic away from older network carriers in Europe and Asia. Clark said he’s mulling superjumbo flights to locations including Houston, Los Angeles and San Francisco as in-service enhancements to a model introduced in 2007 bring the cities within range.

“We know what we want to do, we know where we could put more than 90 A380s today,” the executive said by telephone from Dubai. “It’s a question of can we actually fit them in? The economics of Houston are very powerful. That would be an extremely attractive proposition.”

Water Tanks

Airbus has boosted the superjumbo’s performance by adding refinements such as a more aerodynamic wing profile. Emirates A380s flying today are already three or four tons lighter than when the carrier took its first planes, and other improvements from the Toulouse, France-based manufacturer are likely once fixes for wing cracks have been fully introduced, Clark said.

Emirates has meanwhile driven efficiencies via measures of its own such as curtailing water usage, Clark said. Only about 60 percent of the water carried on its A380s -- which feature onboard showers -- is actually used, and shrinking the tank could save four tons in weight.

Emirates added 15 destinations last year, including Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Barcelona and Seattle. The carrier also introduced a fifth daily A380 flight to London on Dec. 10, and has already this year announced extra superjumbo flights to New York John F. Kennedy and Paris Charles de Gaulle airports.

Adding long-haul routes can quickly “gobble up” new planes, Clark said, with a single daily frequency to Houston alone requiring 2.5 aircraft, making additional orders desirable.

Crowded Terminals

While the scope for new destinations is increasing, limited airport opening hours elsewhere and pressure on terminal capacity in Dubai are constraining growth, Clark said.

The opening on Jan. 2 of the first four of 20 A380-only gates at Dubai International Airport has been factored in to existing fleet plans, and landing slots and airspace over the United Arab Emirates may become scarce as Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways PJSC and budget carrier FlyDubai add flights, he said.

“The airspace management around us, that’s proving to be quite complex,” Clark said. “We’ve got many carriers in the U.A.E. growing at quite a pace.”

In the U.S., Emirates has commercial relationships with JetBlue Airways Corp. (JBLU) at Kennedy and Alaska Airlines in Seattle which allow for connecting flights, and Clark said he aims to “push into other points” with the former. Integrated schedules would allow for easier transfers, though the airlines need to be “careful” about antitrust and pricing issues, he said.

AMR Aim

Emirates is still seeking a deeper relationship with AMR Corp. (AAMRQ)’s American Airlines, Clark said, though the U.S. company’s management is focused on discussions about a merger with U.S. Airways Group as it plans to emerge from bankruptcy protection.

“It’s very much in the American Airlines bailiwick at the moment,” he said. “You know, you can take a horse to water, but that’s as far as we’ve gone.”

The two airlines already direct passengers to one another without a code-share arrangement, though he said it would be “very good” to have closer commercial ties, Clark said.

India Averse

The executive said that Emirates isn’t interested in bidding for a carrier in India following the relaxation of ownership rules there, even as Etihad considers investing in Jet Airways (India) Ltd. or Kingfisher Airlines Ltd. (KAIR)

“It’s a difficult operating environment,” Clark said. “It’s very difficult to get the job done. If the Indians themselves can’t make a go of it, who can? It’s not just operational control, financial control, its human resource, people control.”

India would be more attractive were outside bidders to be “fire-walled” against certain eventualities, as Emirates was when investing in SriLankan Airlines in 1998, Clark said, adding that such a plan would most likely be politically unacceptable.

Emirates also continues to favour tactical partnerships of the kind sealed in September with Qantas Airways Ltd. (QAN), the biggest Australian airline, over membership of one of the industry’s three global alliances, Clark said. That’s after Qatar Airways Ltd., the second-biggest Gulf carrier, said in October it would join the British Airways-led Oneworld group.

“We’re fairly simplistic in our execution of our business model,” he said. “I’ve lived and breathed this airline since we started. The notion that we should allow others to chart our destiny is anathema to the thinking certainly of me and others.”

To contact the reporters on this story: David Fickling in Sydney at dfickling@bloomberg.net; Kari Lundgren in London at Klundgren2@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Anand Krishnamoorthy at anandk@bloomberg.net; Benedikt Kammel at bkammel@bloomberg.net
 

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[h=1]Emirates to Operate One-Time A380 Service to Mauritius on 12MAR13[/h] by JL
Update at 0620GMT 21JAN13

Emirates on 12MAR13 will operate Airbus A380 aircraft on Dubai – Mauritius EK701/702, on one-time basis only. The 517-seater A380 service replaces Boeing 777-300 aircraft.
EK701 DXB0310 – 0910MRU 388 12MAR13
EK702 MRU2320 – 0555+1DXB 388 12MAR13
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Airbus CEO: A380 market remains weak

By Kurt Hofmann | January 18, 2013


The A380 program is on track to breakeven in 2015, Airbus CEO Fabrice Brégier told ATW on the sidelines of the results conference in Toulouse. However, he said the market remains weak for the aircraft. “We are confident [we will] get additional customers, because year-on-year we have met our targets,” he said.

Brégier said the A380 has a “huge market and a long-term outlook, but the market right now for this aircraft is too soft.” He said the economic crisis, combined with the aircraft’s price tag, have made customers more cautious. “We got nine new [A380] orders last year; Boeing got just one [747-8I]. We are not proud with nine orders, but the [weak] market is a reality.”

Brégier said the A380’s wing crack issue has had some impact. “We had very unhappy customers. At the beginning of 2012, some airlines were forced to inspect the wings and had to ground the aircraft,” he said. The incidents also affect potential customers.

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is moving closer to certifying proposed permanent repairs and newly designed wings for the A380. According to Airbus EVP-Programs Tom Williams, EASA’s final certification is expected in early February.

Brégier said there were no complaints from customers who took the 30 deliveredA380s last year.

In 2013 and 2014, Airbus will slow down A380 production to 25 aircraft to secure the wing retrofit. “We are not in a hurry [to build more], but we need to maintain the build on that family.” He told ATW that Airbus has no plans for an extended -900 version.

“The biggest market for the A380 will be China,” Brégier said, adding that he sees potential for bigger aircraft. “For example, I’m selling many more A321s than before and fewer A319s. On the A350, I have a lot of conversions from the -800 to the bigger -900.”

ATWonline
 

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come mai non se ne parla più dell'A380 che pure lui ha avuto seri problemi non da poco visto che gli si crepavano i punti di attacco delle ali alla fusoliera ecc ecc? Hanno già risolto il problema o forse c'è qualcosa sotto che non si deve sapere? faccio la domanda perchè adesso sembra che il 787 sia un mezza trappola, mentre l'altro un super aeroplano tutto qui
 

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Dimentichi la messa a terra della flotta Qantas e Singapore quando esplose un motore al primo Qantas consegnato. Aggiungo che le microcrepe sulle ali evidentemente destavano un allarme minore rispetto alla possibilità di incendio delle batterie al lithio del 787, viceversa nessuno si sarebbe sognato di tenerli in esercizio.
 

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Saudi prince sells A380
"Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Al Saud has sold his Airbus
A380. According to Bloomberg, Prince Alwaleed, who is chairman
of state investment company Kingdom Holdings, bought the doubledecker
private plane in 2007 but never actually took delivery of it. The
buyer and sale price of the aircraft was not disclosed, but new A380s
have a list price of US$390 million."

Source: TravelDaily India