Etihad Airways has just announced its newest Airbus A380 destination, and it’s an airport to which the airline has never before flown the whale jet on a regularly scheduled basis…
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Bangkok Narita sounds like something Ryanair could fly to 😀 “Yeah, it’s not that far from Bangkok…”
Not entirely sure it makes that much sense on a short-ish flight, where you can either sleep or indulge but not both.
The A380 comes with a bit of a tax in terms of boarding so especially for the economy crowd, a smaller plane could be a better option.
Qatar does well with their A380 on the DOH-BKK route. I assume this is in reaction to QR success.
Bangkok is certainly a popular destination for A380s for the ME3 huh
- Emirates has 4x daily A380 services (one continues on to HKG)
- Qatar has 2x daily A380 services
- now Etihad will have one too
The ride in EY’s A380, F Suites is very comfortable. However, the Residence is not for two to share. As for the stopover options, they are all very nice the first time, or, if you are dictated to by a shopaholic mistress …. 🙂
Q, in my experience the EY, A380 F Suites beats all but SQ’s, A380 F Suites (having tried all four airlines). I could not hazard a guess about seats in any other parts of any A380.
Suvarnabhumi is such a big airport, and plenty of people like visiting Thailand, so, why not. That said, I wish EY did not discontinue a380 for JFK (last flight was in 2025). a35K is not bad, but a380 is better. NYC market wants products like first Class Apartments and The Residence suites. I guess we'd need to go up to YYZ to still experience it. So, ironically, Canada's winning at some things...
Except that QR constantly swaps aircraft, even on that route. Was booked on a380 with QR, then they switched to 787, and then again to 35K (Q-Suite, at least). Not consistent.
Am I the only one to think EY is desperate now. Their penny pinching strategy is hitting a dead end.
BKK was never a premium destination, and EY is deploying their premium heavy jet.
I guess EY just realize real premium passengers hate their cheap strategy of unbundling everything just like a LCC.
So if they can't scam 1st time EY premium flyers anymore, they might as well find a new destination and dump their capacity in less premium markets. At least there are more frugal 1st timer to scam.
Seriously ? Really ? WOW are you something else not in a good way. I have seen your other responses and yeah.