Cathay A380??
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the A380 has severe problems, not that airbus will admit to it...................rumours abound that it is over weight...............not true, it does however have a 50 ton fuel shortage due to fore & aft wing bending which means that they cannot put 50T of fuel on that they had planned on doing...........................
It won't even do Los Angeles - Hong Kong direct, Cathay did the figures and it falls into the Ocean about 30 minutes short of Hong Kong..................
The fact that they have created a new wake turbulence category doesn't help. An extra minute between take off's is going to make it a tad unpopular but not the end of the world..........................
what does finish it off is it can only use a 200ft wide runway.............so if your going to say, LHR, you can't use Stansted as an alternate, have to use Paris.................so you have to haul an extra 5-7 tons of gas for 13+ hours.................mmmmmmmmmm, not very cost effective really
Cathay learnt the lesson ..............Never be a lead customer for airbus, watch the others suffer for 5 years till they sort it out, then buy 747-800's
It won't even do Los Angeles - Hong Kong direct, Cathay did the figures and it falls into the Ocean about 30 minutes short of Hong Kong..................
The fact that they have created a new wake turbulence category doesn't help. An extra minute between take off's is going to make it a tad unpopular but not the end of the world..........................
what does finish it off is it can only use a 200ft wide runway.............so if your going to say, LHR, you can't use Stansted as an alternate, have to use Paris.................so you have to haul an extra 5-7 tons of gas for 13+ hours.................mmmmmmmmmm, not very cost effective really
Cathay learnt the lesson ..............Never be a lead customer for airbus, watch the others suffer for 5 years till they sort it out, then buy 747-800's
Looks like the usual uninformed comments about the 380 surfacing. Two of sizematters statements seem a little wide of the mark, which makes me doubt the rest.
A380 has just landed at LHR. Last time I was there, the runways were 164 feet wide.
The reported CX comment was that they wouldn't think of ordering it until it could fly from LAX to HKG, all year and fully laden. Now I don't know whether it can or can't do it but that is slightly different to "fall into the ocean".
A380 has just landed at LHR. Last time I was there, the runways were 164 feet wide.
The reported CX comment was that they wouldn't think of ordering it until it could fly from LAX to HKG, all year and fully laden. Now I don't know whether it can or can't do it but that is slightly different to "fall into the ocean".
