"Airbus A380 fleet should be grounded, say engineers"
Jan 10, 2012, 5:01 am
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LH flights to/from NRT is usually full of Japanese tourists in Y (and some in C) but this is not a high tourist season for them.
Jan 10, 2012, 5:19 am
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Have you any idea why the 380s are grounded and why they swapped them for 346s to Narita? Wing cracks syndrome?
Are the two things linked?
Jan 10, 2012, 6:17 am
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Fukushima possibly for visitors to Japan but hardly the tsunami. During the Christmas/New Year period 19% more Japanese travelled abroad compared with the same period the year before but January/February is not a popular tourist season for them.
No. All I know is what oliver2002 reported earlier.
Have you any idea why the 380s are grounded and why they swapped them for 346s to Narita? Wing cracks syndrome?
Are the two things linked?
Are the two things linked?
Jan 11, 2012, 2:36 am
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I think LH is watching their big birds pretty carefully, bad PR is not really what any airline needs at this point. Thus everyone flying with them should be fine.
Jan 11, 2012, 12:42 pm
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Personally, I have reservations about the A380.
Did a single flight to JFK on LH's bird, but just taking off on that a/c is unnerving, with all the unnatural movements it makes when climbing...
Did a single flight to JFK on LH's bird, but just taking off on that a/c is unnerving, with all the unnatural movements it makes when climbing...
Jan 11, 2012, 4:02 pm
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after countless flights on 340s/747s and 380s i never experienced any difference other than the 380 being by far the smoothest and most quiet
Feb 8, 2012, 7:30 am
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follow up article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16942361
Feb 8, 2012, 10:15 am
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Very quick, very small/jerky random movements on the single takeoff from FRA on a clear sunny day with absolutely no wind...seated in the second row of biz, upper deck.
Not very comfortable with the bird.
I'll put my future flights on other aircraft, for now...
Feb 8, 2012, 7:30 pm
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If you get dissuaded after every slight movement in the air then you'll soon run out of aircraft to travel on.
Feb 8, 2012, 10:22 pm
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(I made my comment preceding the latest rounds of cracks found. There still are other aircraft types to fly - at least for now!
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Feb 9, 2012, 6:42 am
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Are you also staying away form 737s on shorter routes?
The A380s are fine, if there was any risk to passengers they would have been grounded completely for the time being.
The A380s are fine, if there was any risk to passengers they would have been grounded completely for the time being.
Feb 10, 2012, 3:16 am
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Feb 10, 2012, 3:19 am
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