It just turned a year since I put an in-service Singapore Airlines' first A380 was delivered. At this time, Airbus has delivered seven aircraft to the airline, one of Australia's Qantas and three to dubaití Emirates.
October 25, more than 450 passengers who had bought their tickets at a charity auction on E-bay became the first to take a commercial flight with the A380. That day, the first Singapore Airlines aircraft, Airbus delivered ten days before, linking Singapore and Sydney.
A year later, Airbus seems to have overcome the problems with the cables of the A380. Although still not everything works perfectly, the production is full of planes in the process of change and it seems that Thomas Enders, president of Airbus, will lose the magnum bottle of champagne that are wagered in the delivery of the first aircraft to Qantas stating that 2008 would close with 11 A380 deliveries. Evolution
A380 a year after its launch
Singapore Airlines in 2008 received an additional seven copies. Emirates Qantas three and two. In total, twelve. 2009 will bring the first deliveries to Air France and Lufthansa. In Airbus facilities in Toulouse and you can see several planes from Air France at various times in their assembly or modification together with others of the three airlines that already operate.
In point of sales, John Leahy, chief of this department in Airbus, but surely he would have liked more.
Given the economic circumstances could not close better year when his 'notice' that it expected to add another client to the portfolio of the A380 before the end of 2008, when the group met formally Marsans, through its President Gonzalo Pascual, became to sign a letter of intent for four of these aircraft, the first to fly in Spain and among the first to unite Europe and Latin America.
addition to the four A380s, Marsans signed the acquisition of A330, A350-900, A319, A320 yA321.
The three operators of the A380 at the end of the year have given high marks to the plane. Emirates gives a shout only worse because the first plane had to be stopped a few days by electrical problems, that yes, there have been repeated in the other two received.
2009 will bring us the chance to see for the first time together at the same airport A380 to Singapore Airlines, Emirates and Qantas when the last two start flying to London. Emirates who which planned the December 1, 2008, while Qantas will meet during the month of January 2009, Singapore and Sydney will be the following airports where we have the three A380.
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