Probable A380 Program Termination This Week - No last minute BA Order
Feb 15, 2019, 4:01 pm
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Feb 15, 2019, 4:03 pm
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Feb 15, 2019, 4:29 pm
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Feb 15, 2019, 4:33 pm
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Why doesn't BA serve JFK with an A380, as other airlines do ? Does it not make sense as such a popular route ? Or does BA prefer frequency over many passengers in fewer flights. It's clearly not a distance thing, what with BOS being such a relatively short flight time.
LHR-JFK is ideally suited to 14x B788s every hour from 6am to 8pm
If Airplanes were made of lego/duplo and combinable... the answer is obvious. Given they aren't, BA/AA opt for having flights every ~90 minutes LHR-JFK then having many smaller planes flying JFK-LHR every 10-20 minutes at peak times. By contrast, AF serve the (much smaller) PAR-NYC market with a few A380s/77Ws a day
Feb 16, 2019, 3:53 am
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Feb 16, 2019, 4:55 am
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WHY BRITISH AIRWAYS COULD BE THE AIRBUS A380'S SAVIOUR:
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel...81691.html?amp
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https://www.independent.co.uk/travel...81691.html?amp
”The A380 is on its last legs,” one media outlet reported after this week’s news that Airbus is to stop making the double-decker plane. Well, even though the last A380 will roll off the production line in 2021, reports of its imminent extinction are premature. There is plenty more life in the old plane yet...
BA may even find that Gatwick is a good home for some A380s. Its long-haul fleet at the Sussex airport is all-Boeing 777, which does not give it much flexibility. And with Virgin Atlantic a constant thorn in the side on many routes, the A380 could help British Airways get an edge – as well as make the most of its slots at an airport that is ever-more crowded.
BA may even find that Gatwick is a good home for some A380s. Its long-haul fleet at the Sussex airport is all-Boeing 777, which does not give it much flexibility. And with Virgin Atlantic a constant thorn in the side on many routes, the A380 could help British Airways get an edge – as well as make the most of its slots at an airport that is ever-more crowded.
Feb 16, 2019, 6:23 am
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Unfortunately sentimentality has no place in business, the 777 is the better aircraft for those that matter.
Feb 16, 2019, 9:16 am
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WHY BRITISH AIRWAYS COULD BE THE AIRBUS A380'S SAVIOUR:
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel...81691.html?amp
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https://www.independent.co.uk/travel...81691.html?amp
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First generation A380's are overweight against spec and are heavier than the later models meaning a payload trade off between cargo passengers and fuel. That's the primary reason the second hand market is poor. Nobody wants to invest in a donkey. Except Hi-Fly it seems.
Typical output from Simon Calder.