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Emirates lands in Doha with world’s shortest A380 flight
Thursday, December 1, 2016 — 1 December 2016 – DUBAI, UAE – Emirates today launched the world’s shortest scheduled A380 service, flying a distance of 379 kilometres with a total travel time of 1 hour and 20 minutes from Dubai to Doha, and 1 hour 10 minutes on the return journey. The A380 flight touched down this morning at Hamad International Airport, taxiing in to a water cannon salute and was welcomed by key officials and trade guests at an Emirates reception at the terminal. Travelling on… (www.emirates.com) Ещё...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Hehehe Qatar has a ruler that gives money and stocks to citizens every year. One year the stocks given by the emir was given with telling them they should not sell the stocks. In a years time the stocks turned into over a million dollars value. That's just one of the years. So as you can see it's too time consuming for them to hire a small private jet so they just lower themselves to flying first class.
We were stuffed into one in 2015 from Frankfurt to Charles de Gaulle I hr 2 minutes or reality 10 minutes sprinting down terminal A for the connection time, two times through customs check, boarding was admittedly fast Lufthansa Marsch an Bord Menschen jetzt! taxi time 5 minutes flight time just over an hour taxi another 5 minutes then März von Flugzeug jetzt!
Lots of cargo space on the plane for handling UPS and FedEx subcontracting importing economy 2-5 day delivery to Qatar which it doesn't have. I'm sure the UAE has profits in mind.
http://images.fedex.com/international/pdf/Intl_Service_Coverage_Map.pdf
http://images.fedex.com/international/pdf/Intl_Service_Coverage_Map.pdf
This is the advertised first flight with the A380.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAE841/history/20161201/0345Z/OMDB/OTHH
Prior to that route service was B773. Wonder what the average load is.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAE841/history/20161201/0345Z/OMDB/OTHH
Prior to that route service was B773. Wonder what the average load is.
And why did you get down voted?
I agree Joel in also wondering..hopefully its worth it to use the big bird.
Impressive.