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guys, please don't be stupid because you will loose the rest of your credibility, even management reads pprune.

THERE WILL BE NO COMPOUND FOR 380 DRIVERS IT'S BS

the 380 is just another plane, not even nice to operate and with ****ty bunks, dont be intimidated by its size, the 340 and 777 are also big

On top of that, apparently they are getting their own fleet of cars for transport to/from work. The Audis will be left with the main fleet and they are getting new BMWs in a deal with Meydan and the autodrome.

Being in a 380 compound would be a lot of fun. It'd be cheap to buy but a month later you'd have the "handyman" coming by every week (at cost) to fix wall cracks, faulty plumbing, leaky roof, appliances not working, etc...

You get up in the morning and it takes an hour and a half to fire up the kitchen and get breakfast ready. Pick up a book to read and it's written in French - or badly translated English. Switch on a light and a wiring loom in the garage bursts into flames. Go to the front door to leave for work and the lock won't let you open it. Later, you try to sleep on the world's thinnest, cheapest mattress, placed conveniently in the living room, and be kept awake by some kid kicking a wall in the neighbour's house down the road.

Actually, that sounds like most of the villas... hey, we're ALL living in crappy airbus villas already!

At least the Supers will have a filipina maid to clean the toilet every time they use it - then go straight to make their lunch without washing her hands in between!

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This is the biggest bull**** Emirates could come out with. The fact that some of you guys, who fly the '380 are somehow better than the rest of 777/330/340 pilots.

In my humble opinion, this is just for advertising, somehow Emirates try to underline how many pilots are going to fly their super jumbos, and probably get another deluded pilot to join them. It would be extremely stupid of their side to actually make a compund for '380 pilots only. That way, 777/330/340 pilots should get their own compounds, which will cost Emirates billions of dirhams.

Oh, for Pete's sake, you really can't tell when you are reading something the press got wrong?

Emirates said it needed a new compound because of all the pilots it will need, due to new aircraft such as the A380-

Stupid reporter hears- compound for A380 pilots.

Gullible, whinge-at-anything pilot believes it!!!

Nice post there Don:ok:

Agreed- funny stuff don!!:ok:

You obviously misinterpreted what I had in mind. All I'm saying is, that Emirates is whether trying to make a pathetic advertisment or like you said the medias got it wrong.

The 380 pilots are no more pilots than the rest, so it's all bs whether wrong or right.

Are the new villas being built directly underneath the high tension power lines or will they be right beside them? A little bit of leukemia won't hurt you!

All those who point to the media getting it wrong are probably right - shocking, I know, but still . . .

Another example of the media getting it wrong is the recent story that broke about the QF A330 being flown over MTOW - ninemsn in Australia initially reported the aircraft as being an A380:

Qantas overloaded A330 plane: investigators

The story was later corrected from the A380 to the A330, but the URL remains the same.

Seems that, to the media, every airliner is a 380, just as every GA aircraft seems to be a Piper Cub . . .