Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Get on the Magic Airbus
Airbus are finally showing the public the new A380, the plane to buy if you want to move between 550-800 people at once.
Of course, all the good news is out, but only The Guardian seems to have taken some time to discuss the bad news, such as Virgin prosponing thier order till 2008 (by which time the Boeing rivial, the 7E7 Dreamliner, will be in opperation) because only two airports look set to be ready, Paris and London, which already has pleanty of low costts flights anyway. American airports seems slow to implement the required changes to accomodate these planes, wonder if they'll manage to find the time and rescourcees when the American backed effort is ready for the skies?
And it takes a lot of adaptations for an airport to acccept the superjumbo jets. The Airbus plant in Hamburg where the planes are beig produced had massive amounts of trouble trying to get the extra land needed to expand the runway, I'm not even sure if they defeted the anti-progess apple farms in time to secure the contract. And come on, if the first airport to try to accomodate the planes fails, not really a good omen is it?
Plus, as well as being lenghtened, runways need to be reinforced to support its
1,235,000lb bulk, gates need to be adapted to have two boarding levels and lugae transport needs to be changed to.
Not that this is not without benifits, such as on-plane bars and casinos (Ideal place to be in turbulance), private rooms with double beds (Ideal palce to be during turbulance) and on-plane showers (Ono which the water has be recycled, and due to the massive weight of this think it'll probably have enough for only half of the first person shower. So not only do they have to use thier own water twice, so do the next 555 people).
This plane is just too heavy, I bet after the crash test they remove a lot of stuff from this flying hotel. Weight is such an issue they can't even decide on the capcity of the plane yet. Anyway, enough of that....
Of course, all the good news is out, but only The Guardian seems to have taken some time to discuss the bad news, such as Virgin prosponing thier order till 2008 (by which time the Boeing rivial, the 7E7 Dreamliner, will be in opperation) because only two airports look set to be ready, Paris and London, which already has pleanty of low costts flights anyway. American airports seems slow to implement the required changes to accomodate these planes, wonder if they'll manage to find the time and rescourcees when the American backed effort is ready for the skies?
And it takes a lot of adaptations for an airport to acccept the superjumbo jets. The Airbus plant in Hamburg where the planes are beig produced had massive amounts of trouble trying to get the extra land needed to expand the runway, I'm not even sure if they defeted the anti-progess apple farms in time to secure the contract. And come on, if the first airport to try to accomodate the planes fails, not really a good omen is it?
Plus, as well as being lenghtened, runways need to be reinforced to support its
1,235,000lb bulk, gates need to be adapted to have two boarding levels and lugae transport needs to be changed to.
Not that this is not without benifits, such as on-plane bars and casinos (Ideal place to be in turbulance), private rooms with double beds (Ideal palce to be during turbulance) and on-plane showers (Ono which the water has be recycled, and due to the massive weight of this think it'll probably have enough for only half of the first person shower. So not only do they have to use thier own water twice, so do the next 555 people).
This plane is just too heavy, I bet after the crash test they remove a lot of stuff from this flying hotel. Weight is such an issue they can't even decide on the capcity of the plane yet. Anyway, enough of that....
