Brookhouse

Surprised to see a British Airways A380 parked next to a Malaysian A380 at the Satellite Terminal at Kuala Lumpur Airport. No mention anywhere of why its here.

TabTraveller

http://thebasource.com/british-airwa...a-maintenance/

British Airways A380 G-XLEJ, which has been under maintenance at Manila since 10th September, positioned Manila – Kuala Lumpur in the early hours of this morning as BA9170.

Brookhouse

Thanks for the info.

1010101

They go to KL on the way back from maintenance in Manila, before they re-enter service at SIN. It's cheaper to park them there until they're needed.

flatlander

What's the typical cost of parking an A380 in that sort of situation?

ATCO2

Landing fees approx £750 for a light A380. Parking charge per 10m2 is 20p. The wings alone are 843m2!

msm2000uk

Is that true?

Not that I'm debating it, but if so, that is my new favourite peace of marvellously useless knowledge!

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mikeyfly

Are those two 747s still abandoned at KUL ?!

msm2000uk

I didn't see them when I was last at KUL, but the 2 MH A380s are in plain sight - as well as a number of de-liveried 777s.

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Globaliser

A previous sighting of a BA 380 at KUL was discussed starting from this post: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...l#post28794465

ATCO2

I was a little bit out on the landing fees, it's actually just over £900. But yes, they're taken from the airport website. The first 3 hours of parking is free, after that it's charged. Space occupied being the product of the span vs maximum length so 5,800m2 x 0.20GBP for every 12hrs an A380 is parked there.

If you're very bored, more info here!

msm2000uk

Amazing! That's my Friday taken up with reading!

On the flipside, 3 hours of free parking is better than my local high-street!

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Sam Bee

So I understand that they re-enter service in SIN as obviously that is a BA A380 destination, but in effect, they are an extra inbound flight (unless the outbound A380 is going to maintenance?)

So if in effect it's just an extra Asia - LHR A380 flight as they can sell seats and make more money rather than fly back to London empty, any reason why they don't add an extra KUL-LHR sector? Or BKK-LHR? Is SIN-LHR really providing that many extra seats?

I have looked in the next week and don't see an extra SIN-LHR service - i.e. a BA 3016 as they did previous when scheduling a bonus LHR-SIN flight, so perhaps the inbound flight is then heading to MNL for maintainance.

I hope MH get the chance to pop in and have a look at what a properly maintained A380 interior looks like... (sounds odd, but true).

nwmgc

Yep still there on Monday this week.

shefgab

It's amazing that it's cheaper and easier for BA in terms of cycles/fuel/crewing to add a stop in KUL rather than just pay the extra to park in SIN (or just leave it in MNL a bit longer).