nah, there ain’t. It’s not too bad for photography, though, as I found out when I was over in May. (as long as the bloody Film winds on properly).

Of course, the one drawback about it is the fact it’s Embra, and therefore traffic jams are guaranteed (having said that, the Kingston Bridge isn’t much better…) on the way there.

perhaps they could fly to Sardinia (Corsica Airport)…

that can’t be right, Hand, that means that one nm is different near the poles to one at the Equator.

It was a quote. Long since forgotten as the A340-600 was soon found not to be able to reach it. It was on the Airbus website for their “project figures”. Naturally, as the thing can’t reach their claims… they’ve altered the website accordingly. Alas, I did not have the presence of mind to screenshot the page at the time.

I’m not sayiung the A340-600 isn’t a good aircraft. It is. I’m saying that airbus (yet again) at first promised more range and efficiencey from it than they actually managed to coaxed from it. It long been known that Airbus don’t seem to have the ability to live up to their projections when developing an aircraft.

So, I bet the A380 will eventually have less range, less capacity and less efficiency gains that airbus are currently predicting.

Might be able to help you out here, Sandy….

dug up an old copy of FlugRevue (February 2000), where the main topic is 30 Years of AIrbus. Anyway, there’s details of the whole fleet, and, for the A340-600, it lists ‘Reichweite mit typischer Passagierkap. (km)’ as 13’900. Which, by my rudimentary maths (139’000/16) is 8687.5 statute Miles (don’t ask me what it is in nautical Miles, though :confused: )

Bear in mind this was published two years before first deliveries.

So basically, she’d be happy if McDonald’s were outlawed airside, seeing as how their bag seems to be her major gripe?

To be fair, I’d probably rather throw a McD burger down the toilet than eat it myself, too…

DXB is hardly going to work as a Hub for North American-anywhere connections, though…

maybe the scale of US airports make it unfeasible to bus pax out to aircraft on remote stands, leaving them with no other choice?