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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]
´who designed it? Its a flying obese whale that will scare birds,children, and pollute the skies, (I mean visual pollution).Ugly.
Who designed it? My god! Its obese. It look like flying whale.
Please do not pollute the skies anymore with aircrafts like the A380, birds get scared, pilots too.
Please do not pollute the skies anymore with aircrafts like the A380, birds get scared, pilots too.
Estupido!
thank you.
US passenger carriers cannot afford this kind of aircraft. It might be useful for the largest carriers - namely UPS and FedEx - when the A380 comes into the used aircraft market in 20 or 30 years. I see US passenger carriers buying more Boeings, including the 787 which will do just fine for long haul and/or intercontinental flights. As someone else wrote, the A380 aircraft is perfect for the Asian and Middle Eastern markets where demand is very high, investments in infrastructure, operations and equipment huge.
Yes sir... economics. If it makes money, they will buy it. I just think the A380 is too big for the US carriers . Korean uses it on the Inchon/Hong Kong route (relatively short hop for the 380). But they fill it to the brim each turn. I've been on a lot if international flights and, barring Cancun, each time for I departed the US on a half empty plane and returned on a jam packed plane. Not sure how that ratio keeps holding up. Seems to me though the A380 needs to be full in both directions to make sense financially. Load Factor will keep this plane out of the US fleets (till the Freighter version rolls out).
Chris, the primary reason that Korean are full on that service is the number of seats on board, 407 (according to Seatguru.com. The other 3 main users, Emirates 489 and 517 in two different configurations, QANTAS 450 and Singapore 471. They are currently set for each airlines market model of passengers or range, the high density Emirates aircraft are used for shorter range sectors mainly to Europe.