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British Airways to bring back its Airbus A380s as it launches its biggest schedule since March 2020
British Airways is initially bringing back four of its Airbus A380s. The airline has made this announcement: British Airways’ A380 aircraft will re-join the airline’s fleet earlier than expected as US borders re-open, initially operating to Los Angeles, Miami and Dubai The airline is increasing flights to the US by adding more services to key cities including New York, with up to eight daily services by December The airline will also be bringing forward planned restart dates to a number of US… (worldairlinenews.com) Ещё...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I don’t know if this is relevant to this particular story but I saw a huge number of Emirates A380 flying from Dubai towards London this week while on adsbexchange. They were all at the same altitude in line astern with equal spacing between each.
Yay! And dfw will be one of them!!!
It's funny that some people are concerned about the carbon footprint of this plane, which operates in relatively small numbers on a worldwide scale. Freaking insanity.
I wonder (and maybe someone could follow up with some data to confirm or rebut), what is the overall carbon output of using an A380 with lots of passengers vs multiple small jets. E.g. Paris to London with 600 people vs 3x 737s with 200 on board (simple numbers).
Obviously there is more fuel used, but I presume overall less than 3x 2 engine flights? Hence less carbon emissions.
I say this as I suspect that carbon emissions will be more 'valuable' than money in the future.
Obviously there is more fuel used, but I presume overall less than 3x 2 engine flights? Hence less carbon emissions.
I say this as I suspect that carbon emissions will be more 'valuable' than money in the future.
Remember that the A380NEO programme died during gestation.
I can’t imagine the a380 with shark-lets and not fences.
I think how much cargo is on board, how fast they reach cruising altitude and many other factors are in play.
What would be interesting is for the airlines to publish the data for every flights (plane type, engine type, flight duration, flight distance, total weight at departure, total weight on arrival, ... possibly more that I cannot think of at this time) and then we could do some statistical analysis (not just on plane type carbon emission but also on which airline is more/less efficient).
What would be interesting is for the airlines to publish the data for every flights (plane type, engine type, flight duration, flight distance, total weight at departure, total weight on arrival, ... possibly more that I cannot think of at this time) and then we could do some statistical analysis (not just on plane type carbon emission but also on which airline is more/less efficient).
Paris to London is not the market aimed by A380s. Loading and unloading times and taxiing in these high density terminal areas for a 40 minutes flight when half of it would be climbing to most economical flight levels and descending for initial approach fixes with holding patterns when necessary would kill any benefit.
This is what happened to the Concorde who had special departure and arrival routes in order to avoid lengthy time in lower flight levels where fuel consumption is the higher.
Also number of engine start cycles have consequences on the engine lifetime and between mandatory overhauls.
This is what happened to the Concorde who had special departure and arrival routes in order to avoid lengthy time in lower flight levels where fuel consumption is the higher.
Also number of engine start cycles have consequences on the engine lifetime and between mandatory overhauls.