A380 airports & orders

I may be wrong, but doesn’t the Emirates order include freighters as well?

Bmused – I’m long enough in the tooth to remember all of the negative points you raise being made about another airliner, namely the Boeing 747.

And we all know what a failure that was, don’t we? 😉

No cargo orders yet?

Apart from the 10 FedEx ones, you mean? :rolleyes:

Oh I can see they’re huge. Plenty of room for the 747s they illustrate. No querstion about that.
Question is, do they have double deck Air Bridges?

If not, they are not “truely” ready for the A380.

Questions not directed at you MEA380, directed at the airport authorites 🙂

Bmused55,
concerning BEY, as far as I know, both Runway and Terminal reconstruction ended in 2001 (and they had in mind ,actually it was a priority , to make the airport ready for big aircrafts). The airport officials (not me) are saying BEY is ready, I hope I’m not mistaken.
Gate 1 and 23 are huge by the way.
Regards

Or maybey Beirut isn’t totaly capable of the A380 as yet.

I highly doubt Beirut when being built had the A380 in minds and therefore has double deck Air Bridges installed.
Without those airbridges, an airport isn’t ready for the A380.

No cargo orders yet?
The A380 will probably never visit Brussels, except maybe as cargo aircraft or an airline that finds it amusing to let people board outside.

Do their current load factors justify this? What do they send now?

greekdude1,
it has been said (I’m not sure) that BEY is the 2nd most profitable route for Airfrance. They currently send a daily 777 to BEY, in summer season they will add a second flight on fridays on an A330 and a second flight on saturdays on a 747-400. Air France codeshares with MEA on this route, knowing that MEA has a double daily to CDG (on an A330 and an A321), so if you take both ME/AF flights, then you’ll have 23 flights per week.
I think putting an A380 on this route would be a wise step, knowing that demand is growing each year on this specific route.
Regards.

That Beirut layout is picturing 747s…. what gives?

Hey, you’re right! Maybe the A380 isn’t real after all……

Or maybe the CAD software used to produce the plan doesn’t have a graphic for the A380?

That Beirut layout is picturing 747s…. what gives?

Brisbane is ready??? what gates will they be utilising? Could someone help me on this?

in fact Air France is planning to send one their A380 to Beirut in 2007/2008.

Do their current load factors justify this? What do they send now? The layout of BEY looks pretty impressive.

Beirut Int’l is also ready for the A380 with 2 Gates (Gates 1 and 23), in fact Air France is planning to send one their A380 to Beirut in 2007/2008.
Regards.