Originally Posted by
13900
Come think about it, I remember reading, somewhere internally, that the A380s en route to Manila would often stop at Clark field, wait there until the window opened, then hop to MNL. This LGW stop might be a good way to avoid that if the plane doesn't have to go to SIN beforehand for a flight.
Lol, that's insane, Clark is so close it's like another LHR-LGW run haha.
Originally Posted by
13900
Yet again, proof of how much of a clumsy affair is to deal with the A380 from an operational point of view.
It really is amazing that a plane was designed with seemingly no regard for existing infrastructure. I'm not old enough to have a good perspective on 747s, but maybe it was the same for that? Every time the 380 comes in here at YVR, taxiways have to be closed and only 1 gate I believe is still equipped (it MAY be 2 now). I remember we got a diversion to/from SFO one night and it turned into a whole thing of "crap we need to move a 380 from the gate to the pad cuz only 64 can handle it"...just nuts.