Henry III

Some of the pop-up text is very odd, indeed. How do they know that passengers congregate at the rear of the upper-deck Y cabin?

And, as well as the dubious description of the F and J seats, there is at least one mistake: the starboard seats in Affaires are actually K-L, not J-K as shown. At least, I hope they are, because I'm booked in 60L and I really don't want to be to the right of the starboard window (it gets pretty cold at cruising altitude, and very windy at cruising speed)!

And still no explanation of why 4 seats are missing from row 64.

-- Henry

nomad1974

Just saw this, might be of interest:

"...AF said it will rationalize its Latin American and Asian flights, implement transatlantic efficiencies thanks to its joint venture with Delta Air Lines and reduce frequencies to New York JFK, Dubai and Johannesburg. It will serve those three destinations daily with its first three A380s, which are scheduled to enter service on Nov. 23 to JFK, Jan. 18 to DXB and in early March to JNB. Capacity will increase to Havana and Punta Cana and will remain unchanged on Indian Ocean routes..."

Source: http://www.atwonline.com/news/story.html?storyID=17937

N830MH

Sound good to me. I can't wait to see A380 will be introduction service for CDG-JFK by next couple months later. I can't wait to see her in person. What about the cabin seat configuration? Do you know how many passengers capacity on operated A380?

N830MH

Perhaps, I think KL will have to be considered to gets A380-900 series. It need to boost more passengers capacity on operated A389 aircraft. I think it will be perfect more sizable the A380. I think A380-900 need to have more than 800 or 900 passengers capacity. However, it is own logical choice to bring increase the economic class by upper deck. It will sound more reasonable of A380-900 will be in development real soon. If KL, AF, EK, SQ, UA is interesting to have choose A380-900 or A380-1000 series. If they will have in negotiable deal from Airbus John Leahy.

If they will ever try to bring more demand out CDG or AMS-LAX/SFO/JFK. It will be there in the future. Let's speculating that KL, UA, EK, SQ need to take the advantage of it. It should have more console up to start developed to get brand newest A380-900 series. A380-900 need to have increase the range 10,000nm to become nonstop from CDG-SYD due to payload weight restricted. I think it will have less cargo and bring it up more baggage into the cargo hold. I think it will be possibilities to get A380-900 or 1000 series. It will be almost more than 1,000 passengers capacity.

chornedsnorkack

AF released it, end of May.

538 seats in total. More than now operated (EK has 489, shall have 517 this year), fewer than LH and EK shall have (LH 550, EK 604).

The breakdown: 9 F seats, 1-2-1 main deck in front of M2 doors; 80 business class seats, 2-2-2 upper deck in front of U2 doors (it is not flatbed, about 60 inches pitch), and 449 coach, including 106 on upper deck, back of U2, 8 abreast, and 343 on main deck, back of M2, 10 abreast.

why fly

Interesting no premium economy Oh well.

chornedsnorkack

A380-800 already has 538 main deck seats. A380-900 needs 6 pairs of main deck doors to have over 550 seats there.
It is easier to build A380-800R or A380-700.

By great circle, CDG-SYD is 16 942 km. CDG-NOU is 16 683 km. CDG-PPT is 15 715 km. The longest existing airline route is SIN-EWR, 15 345 km. The longest A380 route is LAX-MEL, 12 748 km.

The first 3 AF A380 shall have no Premium Voyageur until their interior (delivered by Airbus as originally ordered by AF back when AF had no PV class) gets worn out and due for refit. From 4th frame, a new interior including premium economy has been ordered.

nomad1974

Just watched a report on French TV (France 2), incl. a live link from HAM. The first A380 ("Juliette Alpha", they said) is being officially delivered to AF today. It is scheduled to fly (from HAM) into its base at CDG this afternoon.

The lady looked resplendid in the dawn light.

More info (and live links for the arrival):
http://corporate.airfrance.com/
http://www.airbus.com/

^

CDG1

I am not sure if this was posted anywhere before, no time to read through the thread.

This is the link to the livecast for the AF380 delivery ceremony at 10.30 AM today 0ctober 30 from the Airbus website, time is Toulouse local time.

http://www.a380delivery.com/

http://www.a380delivery.com/airfrance/

N830MH

Wow!!! It was so incredible that I can see A380 is ready to go. I can't wait to see A380 coming into JFK or CDG in the future. It will be perfect opportunity to first A380 will inauguration service for CDG-JFK-CDG on Nov. 23, 2009. I will expect to see A380 someday in the future.

JOUY31

BTW, Air Austral plans on having 840 passengers on the 2 A380s it wants to acquire, 510 on the main deck, and 330 on the upper deck .

http://www.clicanoo.com/index.php?pa...article=227946 (in French)

http://www.reuters.com/article/marke...56889120091117

Henry III

GenevaFlyer

Hi all,

To add to the high passenger load for Air Reunion, the A380 will also be flying from an airport where, should there be any problem, you end up in the marina:

http://henrimarnetcornus.20minutes-b...a-reunion.html

Translation:

Cheers,

GenevaFlyer

chornedsnorkack

How is this possible Airbus did put 853 passengers in A380, but only 315 were on upper deck and 538 were on lower deck!

nomad1974

"We are very proud to be the first ones to start with the high-density A380," the airline's founder and president Gerard Etheve told a news conference.