100th Airbus A380 takes off
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100th Airbus A380 takes off
Milestone: First 100 x A380 fly for airlines.
Video: A380 Malaysia Airlines 9M-MNF with 100th A380 sticker - YouTube
100th A380: Malaysia Airlines 9M-MNF
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Video: A380 Malaysia Airlines 9M-MNF with 100th A380 sticker - YouTube
100th A380: Malaysia Airlines 9M-MNF
Flights:
source: http://sky4all.wordpress.com/
Last edited by keesje; 5th Mar 2013 at 14:15.
Somebody needs a few remedial arithmetic lessons.
http://sky4all.wordpress.com/
Really ?
With over 153 flights conducted daily by A380s at 31 airports they serve around the world, the A380 world fleet performs a takeoff or landing every seven minutes.
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I can't tell from your post 2 whether you think that the figure of seven minutes is an over- or an underestimate. The article linked to states that there are (presumably "were" since the article is dated 6th January 2013) 1068 flights a week. Hopefully, this is 2136 "operations" per week.
One week is 7 days/week X 24 hours/day X 60 minutes/hour or 10,080 minutes. So, 10,080 minutes/2136 operations gives approximately 4.72 minutes per operation.
This is quite a bit less than the calculation quoted although within the same order of magnitude. I suspect that the author has regurgitated an impressive-sounding calculation that has been doing the rounds since the time when there were far fewer A380s flying. Journalism eh?
However, as a critique of the arithmetic, you are quite correct.
SFS
I can't tell from your post 2 whether you think that the figure of seven minutes is an over- or an underestimate. The article linked to states that there are (presumably "were" since the article is dated 6th January 2013) 1068 flights a week. Hopefully, this is 2136 "operations" per week.
One week is 7 days/week X 24 hours/day X 60 minutes/hour or 10,080 minutes. So, 10,080 minutes/2136 operations gives approximately 4.72 minutes per operation.
This is quite a bit less than the calculation quoted although within the same order of magnitude. I suspect that the author has regurgitated an impressive-sounding calculation that has been doing the rounds since the time when there were far fewer A380s flying. Journalism eh?
However, as a critique of the arithmetic, you are quite correct.
SFS
I suspect that the author has regurgitated an impressive-sounding calculation that has been doing the rounds since the time when there were far fewer A380s flying. Journalism eh?
Amended version now reads:
With over 153 flights conducted daily by A380s at 31 airports they serve around the world, the A380 world fleet carries more than a million passengers per month
