Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It is so big, in fact that special considerations are required for the plane to service a route. The runway and taxiways have to support its weight, and it requires gates separated farther apart than for other aircraft. It requires special "jet bridges" and more of them. All the requirements are fiscally burdensome and airports and their operating authorities are generally not willing to spend the money required for so few daily flights, so if an airline wants to use the 380, it has to pony up the cash for airport upgrades, thus relegating the potential customer pool to the emirates and such. It is unlikely that Airbus will recover the development costs amortized over so few sales. -----Original Message----- From: grduprey at mchsi.com Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2015 10:29 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] On the Road to Japan - Airbus 380's I think it is bigger than the airport here in Cedar Rapids, and Air Force One has been here. ;D Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Bridge" <abridge at mac.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2015 9:44:20 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] On the Road to Japan - Airbus 380's I?m trying to imagine of these puppies coming in to land at the old airport! I?ll bet it would have been impressive. Hope your flight home is smooth, uneventful, and on time. Adam > On Apr 18, 2015, at 5:22 PM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote: > > > At the Hong Kong airport the lounge had good window access to one of the > landing runways and so there was an opportunity > to exercise the Fuji XT 1 and the 50 - 200 zoom taking pictures of landing > planes. At the gate just outside the lounge a British Airway > Airbus 380 was parked. That plane is really big! _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information