Yesterday I wrote about how Singapore Airlines has already retired their first ever A380, less than 10 years after it entered service. Singapore Airlines is taking delivery of five new A380s, and in the process plans on retiring five of their existing A380s, meaning that for the time being their A380 fleet will maintain about…
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Ben,
Just so that we are clear, ANA did not place an order for the A380. Instead, they inherited these through Skymark Airlines.
Please have this corrected as this does not show your knowledge of the industry except for someone who just travels to collect miles (aka armchair CEO).
Lol @ Anthony Jones. If you read this blog with any regularity you'd know that Ben has mentioned this fact on several occasions that the ANA orders were inherited as a result of the Skymark deal.
@ Anthony Jones - just jealous or something more ?
@ Lucky : keep up the good work !
No guaranty that some of the SQ A380's will not end up being scrapped after all. There is a bigger demand for slight used A380 parts than there is for slight used A380's.
Airbus might makes extra promises to HiFly in regards to service contract for taking the first bird for prestige reasons. Similar to the Qantas A380 that was repaired.
HiFly A380 will work perfectly on Hajj and Umrah. Garuda and Saudia operates 20+ daily 777 flight from Indonesia to Jeddah and Medina during Hajj, and (almost) all major airport in Indonesia is heavily slot-restricted, so two HiFly A380 will take up to four 777 off the roster.
Justice, Ben and Anthony Jones are all wrong. Airbus tried selling an A380D to JAL . JAL did not buy the planes, instead A380Ds were sold to
SKYMARK before it went belly up. The ANA planes are not the A380Ds. The Ds like the Fs wont be built. Instead these A380s are from KINGFISHER a 5 star indian airline that went bust some years back. The airline never took delivery of its 6 airframes. These are full range A380s that may be deployed on London or JFK routes
Get your facts right before trashing each other. A little like Trump buying
Russian 748s as Air Force One. This is no aerospace engineering blog
@A - I agree. This will be great for Saudi Arabian airlines. As an A380 lover (just like Ben), atleast now the A380's will Live 🙂
@W - I've come to know you well as in I know you sit in the back of the bus.
Why do you like the a380 then it's even more uncomfortable than other aircraft as a result of better premium products.
This week Qantas CEO Joyce announced continuing to fly 380 for the indefinite future... presumably trans pacific LA?
@David and others.
I think it’s important especially these days that, that accurate news is reported. It might seems pedantic to point out these details, but seeing that people get their news/ information from blogs these days, accuracy matters. If you want to be a treated like a journalist, act like one — in other words be accurate.
I’ve been a long time reader of this blog and while I pretty much enjoy the content, I’ve noticed more than once that Ben can be inaccurate with his content or is in way over his head in a certain subject.
Just saying...
I frankly cannot see how these will work for Hi Fly, unless absolutely massive incentives were given by Airbus.
The Hajj market is all well and good but what happens the rest of the year? With the exception of London and New York very few markets actually need these planes due to slot restrictions. Presumably airlines that consider themselves "premium" won't be leasing this generic metal with any regularity and airlines like Azores who do lease regularly won't need them. Maintenance costs for a fleet of only 2 aircraft will be high as well. Bet these things are scrapped within a year or two.
I think I'll pass on flying the 380 I'm sure the last few made will be built with care . Would u care if u were getting Canned like a Tuna ? Cat use to tell it's workers way out we are shutting down the line .They lost a bunch of 1/2 million $$$ engines (2009) so NOW u go home on Friday and NEVER come back by a simple email .
Common Sense
CHEERs
@Anony I agree with your position but I suppose I never treat blogs as news sources so the accuracy isn't horribly important to me. Lucky has very specific domain expertise and I largely treat any post outside of his expertise as gossip.
@Ben, do you also know about this other leasing company called Privatair S.A. It's a Swiss company which operates the PNQ-FRA route for LH by a B767. Can't believe that a company like LH also wet leases. It's interesting how this business model is picking up. Be an airline without as much trouble as an airline goes.