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Qantas commences A380 services to Hong Kong
Sydney, 16 January 2012
Qantas has launched A380 services between Australia and Hong Kong – making it the fourth A380 destination in the Qantas network.
The inaugural A380 service between Sydney and Hong Kong departed Sydney yesterday at 1145 local and arrived in Hong Kong at 1750 local. The return service arrived in Sydney this morning at 0840 local.
Sydney-Hong Kong A380 services (QF127) operate on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays and return on the same day as QF128.
Qantas customers travelling between Sydney and Hong Kong can now enjoy the A380’s luxurious and spacious First Class suites, fully-flat Skybed sleeper seats in Business, extra-wide seats in Premium Economy and award-winning Economy seats.
Qantas received its eleventh and twelfth A380s late last year, providing the additional capacity to support Hong Kong services. The new aircraft have also enabled additional A380 services between Melbourne and London (via Singapore) – up from six flights per week to daily – and between Melbourne and Los Angeles, up from four flights per week to daily.
The Qantas A380 schedule now includes;
- Daily services between Sydney and London (via Singapore)
- Daily services between Melbourne and London (via Singapore)
- Daily services between Sydney and Los Angeles
- Daily services between Melbourne and Los Angeles
- Four flights per week between Sydney and Hong Kong
http://www.qantas.com.au/regions/dyn...012/jan12/5352
... e SIA sulla SIN-FRA-JFK, mandando in pensione il vetusto 747-400:
http://www.singaporeair.com/jsp/cms/...s/ne120116.jsp
il primo thai è quasi pronto
http://www.flickr.com/photos/6788071...n/photostream/
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Una bella foto con due code nuove: il terzo esemplare malese e, dietro, il primo tailandese
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aircrafts/6856159073/
ma alla fine hong kong airlines ha ordina il 380?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aircraf...4039/lightbox/
Airbus porterà il MTOW a 575t dal 2013 :
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/art...m-2013-368483/
c'è un interesse da parte di China Eastern Airlines?
Girovagando per la rete mi sono imbattuto in questo articolo http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZA...nefit_Emirates
nel quale si racconta di come EK potrebbe effettuare un ulteriore ordine di 30 A380 al prossimo salone di Farnborough, e di come l'obiettivo minimo di consegne per quest'anno sia di almeno 30 unità.
Continuando di questo passo penso che nei prossimi anni vedremo il 380 EK non solo praticamente in tutti gli aeroporti europei serviti ma diversi lo avranno anche su piu' frequenze giornaliere.
Hanno sempre avuto l'obiettivo di arrivare a 120 A380, ma non hanno lo spazio per parcheggiarli a DXB.
Da un articolo del 2010:
Emirates, which surprised the aviation world by lifting its orders of the world's largest airliner by a third to 90 aircraft in June, is only constrained by a shortage of space to park them, airline president Tim Clark said.
"We would like some more but we are going to run short of space," Clark said in an interview in his glass-walled office overlooking rows of jets at the Middle East's busiest airport.
"120 was the baseline figure that the planners worked to get where we needed to be, but we couldn't order that amount because it was too many for here, so 90 was a compromise."
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-...013-16ihz.html