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A380 Price For Emirates: $234M USD
They probably didn't mean to post this on the internet: "MSN 077 Limited ... has today acquired an Airbus A380-800 aircraft ... for the sum of US$234,000,000." (www.flightglobal.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Imagine the kind of house you could get with that kind of money
Only $234,000,000..think I will take two. What an ugly aircraft.
this like nothing for them
The market in the Middle East and Asia should support the A380 costs just fine. In Asia, airlines aren't worried so much as demand far outweighs supply. Therefore, what an airline can do with a $234m A380 would take two 787s to accomplish. Im no Airbus fan, but they beat Boeing to a solid market in Asia and Middle East.
I don't think you'll ever find a US passenger carrier with this ac in their fleet...ever.
Good to see good old american bias in these comments - nothing is ever any good unless it has "Made In America" stamped all over it! America killed Concord - how they would love to Kill the A380 - probably the best commercial aircraft on the planet.. Thr trouble with american fleets is that they are old and loss money - no wonder they cant afford it!
What a load of crap! This is roughly equivalent to the MSM that attribute any opposition to Obama's policies as racist. When you can't argue on the basis of logic, scream racist, bigot or anti-European.
There are two aspects...the engineering and technology which are not argued or mentioned in any of the posts except by those who have difficulty mustering a cohesive argument to the important part which relates entirely to the business model. The A380 may be a wonderful engineering feat, but it does not necessarily make sense to companies that A. do not possess well traveled long range routes and/or B. companies that hold adequate feeder and distribution networks at either end of those routes.
It will obviously make sense to a few companies, Qantas, Singapore and Emirates at the top of that list along with some other trans-Oceanic routes. China Southern is now wondering how to deploy the five they have ordered from a base near Hong Kong and while they consider it they use them Guangzhou to Beijing...only 1200 miles.
Boeing bet that HKG to LAS, DEN, DFW, IAH etc will be popular and take traffic from the A-380 HKG-LAX plus a connection. We do not know yet who will win the business argument. Supporting one concept over another has nothing to do with the technology, only the business concepts behind them. Until we do it is appropriate to confine the argument to the facts.
There are two aspects...the engineering and technology which are not argued or mentioned in any of the posts except by those who have difficulty mustering a cohesive argument to the important part which relates entirely to the business model. The A380 may be a wonderful engineering feat, but it does not necessarily make sense to companies that A. do not possess well traveled long range routes and/or B. companies that hold adequate feeder and distribution networks at either end of those routes.
It will obviously make sense to a few companies, Qantas, Singapore and Emirates at the top of that list along with some other trans-Oceanic routes. China Southern is now wondering how to deploy the five they have ordered from a base near Hong Kong and while they consider it they use them Guangzhou to Beijing...only 1200 miles.
Boeing bet that HKG to LAS, DEN, DFW, IAH etc will be popular and take traffic from the A-380 HKG-LAX plus a connection. We do not know yet who will win the business argument. Supporting one concept over another has nothing to do with the technology, only the business concepts behind them. Until we do it is appropriate to confine the argument to the facts.