AFAIK Gatwick is further down the road to being an approved alternate airfield.

Until that time, I believe SIA will use EDDF or EHAM.

Yeah EDDF if the favoured diversion airport at the moment.

9V-SKB is due to leave WSSS at 01:14 GMT.
ETA EGLL 14:45 on 18th.
At the moment looks like 09L, but your guess is as good as mine.

Cheers!

I thought the Northern runway still had ongoing work, so the Hippo would land 09R/27L regardless.
But my info may well be out of date.

Nop! All runways available to A380, and now that Link 25 is back, a route to the dedicated A380 gates from all 4 runways. The A380 will operate in accordance with the daily runway alternation.

Some tarmac photos from the inaugural flight a few months ago :).

http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/discussions....main/3670595/

If you had looked closely you may have seen them being swopped around, various training flights were initiated from these bays. Also it is not the tiger terminal, it was named the Budget Terminal as Cebu Pacific also use the facilitys.

First commercial A380 into LHR today
 

London Telegraph (online) is reporting the first flight into Heathrow by a Singapore Airlines A380 today.
Should be quite a sight for the spotters and anyone in T3 with a view of the docking area. :cool:

Confirmed, SIA308 expected to land at 1440z at EGLL.

380
 

I hope someone gets some good video and posts in on line. If anyone sees anything on some of the video sites please post the URL here if you would.

Thanks, 25th

I understand Beeb News 24 plans to be there. Probably Sky News as well, although they were not evincing much interest yesterday.

airsound

Best spot to watch it?
 

Any suggestion as to the best spot to watch A380 coming in? I guess it would be nice to se itland and taxi, what about on the top of that car park, not sure which terminal? Any ideas? Or there is a spot by a roundabout where I watched the last Concordes come in...where is that again?

Thanks

Thanks for all the replies--do hope that it gets LGW as an alternate--is it still going to operate now on the first one into LHR in the morning at 04.55 and return at 12.00 to the far east?

Boeing A380??
 

Sky news reporting that Boeing is the manufacturer of this beast....:rolleyes:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...309658,00.html

"Singapore Airlines and manufacturer Boeing claim the aircraft is the quietest and greenest big plane"



sky have since ammendes ;0

they're landing on 09L this morning so it'll be coming into 27R which is a pain in the neck for us sat in offices on the bath road with an endless stream of dull, anonymous stuff streaming past all day, ho hum...

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just a question regarding the A380 and LHR--say there was a problem at LHR and it has to divert-where else in the UK have handling facilities/pier/steps etc for it?

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Have you been reading that Airbus propaganda drivel again Been Accounting?

Hi,
So landing 9L you reckon?

"So landing 9L you reckon?"

they actually switched operations about half an hour ago so i dont know now, it normally changes at 3pm, i'll keep an eye on things and post with any changes - though i'm sure someone with a better understanding than me might actually know for sure!

At the mo they're going up on 27L, down on 27R.

Thanks JMH, someone suggested on here a while ago that the A380 was obliged to use the Southern runway regardless due to some kind of required modification to the runway/taxiways - anyone confirm this??

A tricky one, wind is 360 - 010 light northerlies, so they could use either direction?

Sad Sad Sad
 

:sad::sad::sad:
I just simmed an A380 into 27R EGLL. Ah me!!