Why the A380 failed
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wrote on 28 Apr 2025, 22:13 last edited by
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wrote on 28 Apr 2025, 22:46 last edited by
Works for me. Nonstop is where it's at.
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wrote on 28 Apr 2025, 22:57 last edited by jon-nyc
Yeah. And even here, where non-stop isn’t in doubt, I’d rather have four flights to London a day than 2.
Plus boarding a plane that seats 400+ sucks ass.
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wrote on 28 Apr 2025, 22:59 last edited by jon-nyc
My son is an aviation geek and we managed to get him on both an A380 and a 747 before they stopped the programs. The A380 trip, NY-Frankfurt on Lufthansa, was my only ride on one. I’d been on a number of 747s though.
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wrote on 29 Apr 2025, 00:31 last edited by Mik
We took a 777 to Hawaii and back. It was ok, although I was not impressed by the first class pods. It’s a reclining coach space.
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wrote on 29 Apr 2025, 00:47 last edited by jon-nyc
The engines are huge.
We walked into one at LHR from a mobile staircase in the tarmac. We walked right by the engine which had a diameter greater than my height. I said ‘wow, look at the size of that engine’ to my son, thinking he would be impressed. He rolls his eyes at me and says ‘it’s a GE 90, Dad, of course it’s huge. He was 9.
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wrote on 29 Apr 2025, 01:25 last edited by
Maybe he’ll come work in Cincinnati at GE Aviation
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wrote on 29 Apr 2025, 02:26 last edited by
Thai Airlines has/had some A380's. For me mostly, it seemed like a regular plane. They boarded/deboarded on two levels, so unless you went to the stairs on the plane and went up or down, just seemed like each floor was a regular plane. LOL
re:747. Loved sitting in the upper cabin. Kind of like your own private plane. Probably my favorite.
