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Old May 24, 2004, 2:09 pm
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Look in the SQ and VS forums

LAX claims it will be ready for the A380 by 2006. However, there is a report in Les Echos, a French financial paper, that the A380 is currently 10 tonnes overweight. VS does not want to experience teething troubles as it did with the A340-600 (sme 3 tonnes or more overweight).

Ironically, AF said it was consider delaying delivery of the A380 because parts of CDG terminal 2 may not be ready, and this was before parts of 2E, built to accomodate for the A380, collapsed.
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