Hi Fly is the first ever airline to get the A380 on the secondhand market, and perhaps even more significantly, they're the first charter airline to have the plane. They just took delivery of their first A380 recently, and even showed it off at the Farnborough Airshow. The plane is now available for lease, and…
Continue reading: Hi Fly’s First A380 Charter Customer Is… Thomas Cook!
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Air Austral is leasing the plane from the end of August. That has been widely reported the last 2 days in Europe.
Why didn't they just send the A380 to greece instead? It would have been a better mission for the aircraft as it could of carried more people back.
@lucky - Air Austral is also leasing it!
https://simpleflying.com/hi-fly-a380-to-be-leased-by-air-austral-a380/
They have been “lying horizontally to find a plane.” The mind boggles but I guess you do what you gotta do
Why did Thomas Cook do it? I suspect because they don't want to end up like Monarch.
It will operate two flights today. One with pax from the cancelled CPH flight and one with pax from a cancelled ARN flight, but because ARN don’t have A380 capability, the flight will go to CPH.
So Level strands 800 or so passengers in YUL and doesn't see any problem in doing so and Thomas Cook leases an A380 to replace a A321. Well then...
They would of done this as a last resort if no other options available and they will ensure everyone sits in economy and not even allowed in the business/first areas to save. (The charter is still probably cheaper then the EU261 costs to pay for the cancelled flights)
They are extreme penny pinchers, I learnt that from my 10 years service there
The irony of having a slogan for saving the coral reefs on the side of an A380 I guess escaped them.
What does "would of done" mean, I wonder? How is that a properly constructed modal verb?
If you're looking for something that sounds phonetically similar, and you know your verbs, the logical reasoning would be: would do + have done = would have done –> would've done.
How on Earth does that get transcribed to "would of done"? What sense do those 3 words make when put together?
@Mike - THANK YOU. This drives me nuts, along with your/you’re. I encounter this every day here in Australia. People need to go back to school and relearn grammar.
The plane has just taken off from CPH bound for LCA - showing as “operated by Hi Fly Malta”.
Those passengers are in for a treat. I would be. Instead of a crammed narrowbody they get a much roomier A380!
@Mike +1
Ha! I was rather surprised when I saw this pass my house in the south or Sweden, near Copenhagen last night. There are not many A380s in the skies here.