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That’s only partially true. They could land at any airport that could land a 747. They could not be a regular scheduled flight there. Runways had to be reinforc

by yardie 6y ago

That’s only partially true. They could land at any airport that could land a 747. They could not be a regular scheduled flight there. Runways had to be reinforced for the heavier plane. And the terminals needed to be upgraded to accommodate the 2 levels of passenger boarding. There are still relatively few airports that could accommodate scheduled A380 service except a dozen major cities.

grkvlt 6y ago
i stopped counting at 15 (over a dozen) cities in this list [0] and had just finished the letter c so there are scheduled a380 flights to many more destinations than you imagined... 0. https://www.iflya380.com/a380-destinations.html https://www.iflya380.com/a380-destinations.html
- yardie 6y ago
  Sorry, misspoke according to Airbus it is 140 airports. https://simpleflying.com/hi-fly-airbus-a380-lisbon/ https://simpleflying.com/hi-fly-airbus-a380-lisbon/
CydeWeys 6y ago
Do you have sources? Flat out none of this appears to actually be true. I won't go through point by point and debunk it all, but the A380 for example does less runway damage than some other planes because it has a lot more tires on which to distribute its weight. See: https://pp.bme.hu/ci/article/download/2103/6681/ https://pp.bme.hu/ci/article/download/2103/6681/
- yardie 6y ago
  This article from 2020 on why only 1 airport in Portugal can land a 380. https://simpleflying.com/hi-fly-airbus-a380-lisbon/ https://simpleflying.com/hi-fly-airbus-a380-lisbon/ And this article [1] on my city's airport from 2011 on why landing the A380 was such a big deal. And why they had to spend $4MM to upgrade a single gate. It was a fairly big deal at the time because you couldn't plug a A380 into a 747 slot. And it was almost 3 years after production before KMIA could accept a A380 as normal service. [1] https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2011-10-24-fl-airbus-a380-revisited-20111023-story.html https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2011-10-24-fl-airbu...

by yardie 6y ago

grkvlt 6y ago

i stopped counting at 15 (over a dozen) cities in this list [0] and had just finished the letter c so there are scheduled a380 flights to many more destinations than you imagined... 0. https://www.iflya380.com/a380-destinations.html https://www.iflya380.com/a380-destinations.html

yardie 6y ago
Sorry, misspoke according to Airbus it is 140 airports. https://simpleflying.com/hi-fly-airbus-a380-lisbon/ https://simpleflying.com/hi-fly-airbus-a380-lisbon/

CydeWeys 6y ago

Do you have sources? Flat out none of this appears to actually be true. I won't go through point by point and debunk it all, but the A380 for example does less runway damage than some other planes because it has a lot more tires on which to distribute its weight. See: https://pp.bme.hu/ci/article/download/2103/6681/ https://pp.bme.hu/ci/article/download/2103/6681/

yardie 6y ago
This article from 2020 on why only 1 airport in Portugal can land a 380. https://simpleflying.com/hi-fly-airbus-a380-lisbon/ https://simpleflying.com/hi-fly-airbus-a380-lisbon/ And this article [1] on my city's airport from 2011 on why landing the A380 was such a big deal. And why they had to spend $4MM to upgrade a single gate. It was a fairly big deal at the time because you couldn't plug a A380 into a 747 slot. And it was almost 3 years after production before KMIA could accept a A380 as normal service. [1] https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2011-10-24-fl-airbus-a380-revisited-20111023-story.html https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2011-10-24-fl-airbu...