I got the email to. Airbus are telling us to check every morning (their “morning, which is GMT +2” as per email) and within hours of checking on one day next week the A380 will fly.

So much for planning my week around it…

Interesting to see a pilots POV of cockpit when it comes into service. looks alot more complex than A340! Wys – what do you think from pics or anything youve heard?

Somewhere at home I also have some in cockpit footage of Concorde supersonic over the Bay of Biscay, shot by my father when I sent him and mum on Concorde for their anniversary one year. Pre 9/11, of course…

Are you a millionaire?

Here we go again. I ll say it one more time for those of woh who find it hard to understande. If you dont want to fly to a Ryanair destination then go and pay the extra money but aboive all dont complain.

Can i just mention here that yes we as aviation “buffs” realise ryanair fly to airports which are maybe lacking in proximity to the main cities (e.g. Frankfurt Hahn) and we know this before travelling.

2 guys in my work are planning a trip around Europe and they were about to book with Ryanair thinking the airport was very close to the city when its 100km+ away! They were lucky to have spoken to me as their next flight would go from the main airport and they only had 3 hours between flights. These are very bright guys but they werent aware of ryanair flying to airports far away.

thats my 2 cents…