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Old Jul 17, 2014, 6:14 am
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Originally Posted by NYTA
It's only a 5 minute shower anyway. With 2 showers they could probably still cover the entire F cabin even on such a short flight.
5 minutes is only the time the water in the shower will run for.

You are allocated a 30 minute slot in the facility, so not much chance of everone getting the use of it on a full flight.
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Old Jul 17, 2014, 4:09 pm
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Originally Posted by SilverChris
SQ has an even shorter route with F. SIN-CGK (Jakarta) is only hour long with numerous 3 class services throughout the day.

They've been at it for many years and have no trouble filling up the front end of the planes.
Tons of short 3 cabin flights in the Gulf......Besides EK, QR, etc there are such flights as LX (DXB-MCT), etc.

As EK takes deliveries of more and more 380's (will have a fleet of over 100 of these aircraft I have no doubt we will start seeing more intra Gulf 380 flights as well as onward segments (right now EK flys SYD-AKL, BKK-HKG & GIG-EZE) and i would bet we will start seeing more flights such as BKK-SGN, etc
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Old Jul 18, 2014, 3:38 am
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Originally Posted by FTcadence
I tried searching and didn't see this mentioned anywhere.

Today Emirates launched the world's shortest A380 service. The flight between Dubai and Kuwait is only 1 hour and 45 min long.

http://www.businesstraveller.com/new...t-a380-service
I fly this route 3 times a month. Its not even 1:45 mins of actual flight. Its 1:15mins.
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Old Jul 22, 2014, 10:39 pm
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Originally Posted by sammy7
I fly this route 3 times a month. Its not even 1:45 mins of actual flight. Its 1:15mins.
Uggghhhh. This flight is very short. They won't give you a beverage or meal. Due to short flight. You have to buy a beverage or snacks at the retail store in the entire concourse.
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Old Jul 23, 2014, 3:45 am
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Originally Posted by N830MH
Uggghhhh. This flight is very short. They won't give you a beverage or meal. Due to short flight. You have to buy a beverage or snacks at the retail store in the entire concourse.
Would you prefer they circled for a bit so you have time for a meal?
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Old Jul 23, 2014, 4:18 am
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Originally Posted by N830MH
Uggghhhh. This flight is very short. They won't give you a beverage or meal. Due to short flight. You have to buy a beverage or snacks at the retail store in the entire concourse.
LH manages to serve me a meal on a 52 minute flight - on both mainline and regional jets.
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Old Jul 23, 2014, 6:20 am
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Originally Posted by dimramon
LH manages to serve me a meal on a 52 minute flight - on both mainline and regional jets.
Slightly less customers than on an A380.
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Old Jul 23, 2014, 2:51 pm
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Originally Posted by ft101
Slightly less customers than on an A380.
I think TG manage to have meal service on a 60 minute domestic flight on a 747-400...well, it is a snack box in Y and something on a tray in J, but still, it is possible! Probably helps that no alcohol is served domestically on TG though.
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Old Jul 23, 2014, 6:28 pm
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Originally Posted by N830MH
Uggghhhh. This flight is very short. They won't give you a beverage or meal. Due to short flight.
Says who ??? You can see the crew here:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v...type=2&theater
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Old Jul 24, 2014, 9:16 am
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Flying KWI-DXB last month, the load was 11/12 in F, and they managed a full meal service. Those two guys worked hard though!
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Old Jul 24, 2014, 9:48 am
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I would be interested in the economics behind flying an A380 on this flight. I would have though intra-Gulf flights would be more akin to the commuter/'puddle-hoppers' in the Northeast US, or even Chicago-New York, which has dozens of flights a day (DXB-KWI has six including the A380), but, as far as I know, all of them are smaller jets with at most ~150 passengers (e.g. Southwest 737s).
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Old Jul 24, 2014, 11:04 pm
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xobile - I think this is mainly a way to fill the gaps in the A380 schedule, when the 380s would otherwise just be at the tarmac at DXB.
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Old Jul 24, 2014, 11:28 pm
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Originally Posted by Xlr
xobile - I think this is mainly a way to fill the gaps in the A380 schedule, when the 380s would otherwise just be at the tarmac at DXB.
This.

Planes on the ground make no money!
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Old Jul 25, 2014, 3:47 am
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Originally Posted by m3red
Planes on the ground make no money!
But do such large planes make enough money to justify them being used on such short routes? What are the loads like? If only half-ish of the plane is full, that's quite a bit of fuel to carry the frame with not very many people.
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Old Jul 25, 2014, 4:04 am
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I just saw an small clip (Behind the cameras) of their inaugural flight to KWI, even do that as I said I know they used the 380 to KWI a couple of times back during the 50 aniversary of the Liberation or any kuwaiti celebration.

As per the Video the said is the shortest 380 flight and I guess they will booked as a record (Guiness???).
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