On Wednesday I posted about how Transaero would apparently be taking delivery of two A380s this summer, which they intended to fly to New York JFK and Vladivostok. At least this was the plan according to a Russian governor. I've long been intrigued by Transaero and have been eying a first class ticket on them…
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Ah! That sucks big time! I hope VS doesn't cancel their a380 orders given the 49% ownership of Delta.
Don't forget about Air Austral's two orders for the A380! And there's 10 unidentified orders yet!
Air Austral needs an A380 like Air Wisconsin needs an A380. Would be shocked if they didn't convert the orders into A350 or A330neo.
Word on the street is that Delta has told Virgin to cancel the A380s...which may be for the best for them.
Surprised you haven't found this out yet - MH is sending its A380 to SYD for a few days starting today through June.
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Virgin describe their orders as 'options' for them so I doubt they will take theirs. The 10 unidentified orders were previously listed as Hong Kong Airlines and then went to unidentified so they are likely to be cancelled.
Best bet for a new operator is if the the Malaysian ones get purchased or if Amedeus finds an lessee for some of the ones they have on order.
It made no sense for Transaero to put an A380 on the New York route so I wasn't surprised by this news.
Nonetheless, an Imperial Class review would still be awesome.
The virgin a380s are options. And you may as well consider them as good as cancelled.
As stated above, those unidentified orders were simply the since-cancelled HK Airlines orders that are now "unidentified" because Airbus isn't ready to concede there are likely zero new customers going to buy the a380. Possibly ever.
The only shot is someone picks up Malaysia's a380s, like Turkish.
Meant to say no more new carriers to buy new airplanes. Turkish could still use the old Malaysia planes but that's not helping the future of the a380 production line
Transaero is getting 747-8is. Could be nice to sample another one of the few carriers getting the (likely) Final version of the queen of the skies. I know you like your middle eastern airlines, but are you sure you want to be supporting a Russian airline though?
Well, while Transaero operating an A380 might be in a distant future, there might be another (for me totally unexpected) new operator:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/3228646-implications-of-a-united-airlines-a380-superjumbo-order