As THAI Airways considers a possibility of cancel its order of 6 A380s due to the 22 months dalay of delivery. Airbus decided to give a surprise visit to Suvarnabhumi Airport as a part of world-wide testing route on 5 dec 2006, the father’s day and the King’s brithday. The plane landed on 13.30 local time. (GMT+7) and will departure on 7 dec at 12.00 local time (GMT+7).
Here is the pic
By: steve rowell - 7th December 2006 at 04:30
It also visited Sydney last week where Airbus executives kissed the rings of Geoff Dixon and his band of under achievers
By: bring_it_on - 6th December 2006 at 17:43
But were Singapore sufficently impressed not to cancel the order… ?
There is no way SQ will cancel their order for the A380 . The A380 even though late will make a lot of money for SQ and even otherwise SQ is too precious of a customer for airbus to let go !!
By: KKM57P - 6th December 2006 at 17:06
http://www.flug-revue.rotor.com/FRHeft/FRHeft06/FRH0612/FR0612b.htm
A380 cable problems threaten Airbus
Apparently the problems arise above all from the use of different software versions of the market leading 3D design program, (Dassault Systems) CATIA. Whereas the Airbus factories in Germany and Spain were using the tried and tested older version 4, the factories in France and the UK converted to the latest version 5 during the A380 development period.
The differences between the two versions of the software are far-reaching: whereas the older version was coded in the Fortran programming language and runs under UNIX on relatively powerful workstation computers, the more recent version 5, which is outwardly geared towards Windows and can also run on PCs, uses the programming language C++.
By: Ren Frew - 6th December 2006 at 11:48
But were Singapore sufficently impressed not to cancel the order… ?
By: T5 - 6th December 2006 at 11:37
Great shots there. Excellent to see some photographs from sunny Thailand and the amazing new Suvarnabhumi Airport!
I was browsing Airliners.net yesterday and noticed that the A380 also visited Incheon fairly recently.
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December 6, 2006 at 9:46 am