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 ...perators
Preparations for introducing the A380 are providing a major
challenge for airlines, airports and maintenance companies
Working
life
When the A380 starts earning money for its operators in three years' time, its sheer size will pr...
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 ...380
At the top of the list is London Heathrow,
which is Virgin's hub. During the first year of
operations this airport will also handle A380s
of at least three other airlines - Emirates,
Qantas ...
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 ...inner
Airbus
Achievement
Launch of the A380
Airbus is
aiming to
set new
standards
with the
A380
Airbus launched the double-decker A380 last June, just 12 months after the manufacturer started assessing market demand for the all-new ...
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 ...IR TRANSPORT
PRODUCT STRATEGY PAUL LEWIS / SANTIAGO
Airbus devebpment set to
go down widebody route
Manufacturer to concentrate on stretched, shrunk and extended-range versions of A380
A330 freighters would offer crew commonality with LanChile's A340s
Airbus is planning to focus product
development on further expans-
sion of its widebody family rather
than its narrowbody ai...
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 ...roduction of long-lead items gets
under way in preparation for its first flight in late 2004
ANDREW DOYLE/TOULOUSE
Apart from its full-length upper deck and enormous wing span, the 555-seat Airbus A380 will, viewed from the outside at least, offer the travelling public little
evidence to suggest civil-aircraft technol
ogy has moved on significantly since
Boeing unveiled the classical lines o...
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 ...nd heavier," says Dupont, so the A380 has
not been as demanding as many had feared.
The 2006/07 starters comprise 12 air
ports, including Dubai, one of the first
major A380 hub airports where launch cus
tomer Emirates is based. ...
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Europe's giant
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Written by
Guy Norris, Max Kingsley-Jones,
David Learmo...
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 ...S) package
for review by the US Federal Aviation
Administration. "We are quite confident
Kennedy will be well prepared," says Preuss.
Los Angeles International Airport is set to
be another early A380 destination for Virgin,
Qantas, SIA and possibly Emirates. It has
only just finalised its MoS package, however,
and there are currently some concerns
about whether its runways and terminals w...
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 ...irports
FITTING THEA380
Will Airbus's new ultra-large A380 provide the solution
to slot shortages - or will it just cause problems for
cash-strapped airports?
DAVID LEARMOUNT / LONDON
Airport bosses can see the new...
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 ...iSO update
CABIN
More seats, more space
Airbus
expects
operators
to use the
A3 80's 12
cross-
aisles and
end
zones to
"reinforce
their
brand"
Studies into the configuration of the
A380's cabin have continued since
the A3XX days. Between 1998 and
2000, Airbus worked with leading cus
tomers behind closed doors on the
configuration of key elements such as
the stairs and the u...
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 ...tests
•far, with the complex air, land and sea
transport plan working as advertised and
the production schedule minute-perfect.
The only setback in recent months has
been the decision by two key A380 cus
tomers, Air France and Virgin Atlantic, to
defer deliveries. Virgin partly attributed its
18-month delay to concerns over the state
of readiness of some major airports for the
giant - in...
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 ...w the aircraft
operating into major airports with a repre
sentative load of passengers early in the
test programme to provide feedback before
the traditional route-proving effort (which,
for the A380, will be undertaken later in
the programme by MSN007).
MSN002 will have a "medium level" of
instrumentation, and will be tasked with a
six-month flight-test programme to check
cabin systems,...
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 ...ound as though airports
need do virtually nothing to prepare for the
new ULA, but it has been doing a lot of
work to help them. It has surveyed 81 air
ports across the world that will or may see
A380 operations, whether passenger or pure
freight, based on aircraft orders and expres
sions of interest. Among the 81, Airbus has
identified "likely early airports", and has pri
oritised these a...
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 ...IR TRANSPORT
AIRCRAFT DEVELOPMENT MAX KINGSLEY-JONES / TOULOUSE
Airbus evaluates heavier A380
Manufacturer to decide within three months if it will offer increased take-off weight on 550-seater from service entry
Airbus has come closer than ever to
conceding that it has failed to
achi...
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 ...IR TRANSPORT
The world's largest airliner has moved a step closer to flying, as structural assembly of A380 MSN001 finishes
COVER STORY MAX KINGSLEY-JONES / LONDON
A380 production ramps up
across all Airbus factories
Aircraft moved to final assembly line at Toulouse as other European sites get busy...
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ground. As well as widebody designs, further
stretches of the A320 family - the so-called "A322' -
have also been studied to meet fill the void between
the single aisle models and the A330/A340.
A380
Production got underway this year of the most
eagerly anticipated aircraft since the Boeing 747 -
the A380. This $10.7 billion programme was formally
launched in December 2000, but the aircraf...
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 ...e
access panels, while Jamco will make the
upper deck floor carbon crossbeams and
Boeing-owned Hawker de Havilland
(Australia) the wingtip fences. In all, Asian
aerostructures suppliers have won A380
business estimated to be worth $1 billion.
Innovations
"We are quite comfortable with the com
mitments we have from risk-sharing part
ners and vendors," says Forgeard.
Government-backed ref...
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 ...O TIME TOULOUSE
Airbus is working furiously to clear the series of hurdles
that must be negotiated before the A380 can make its
first flight from Toulouse early next year
MAX KINGSLEY-JONES / TOULOUSE
Airbus is confident the A380 will fly on schedule early in the new year, but not before it has com pleted ...
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 ...ners
with the first example due to roll out in Toulouse
early next year and begin flight testing by the end of
the first quarter
The only major setback this year has been the
decision by two key A380 customers, Air France
and Virgin Atlantic, to defer deliveries. Virgin partly
attributed its 18-month delay to concerns over the
state of readiness of some major airports for the
giant - in p...
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 ...IR TRANSPORT
EVALUATION
SAA looks at A380 for UK flights
South African airline again considers ultra-large aircraft to replace Boeing 747s on its dense services to London
South African Airways (SAA) is
looking to place an order for ab...
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