First A380 delivery

On Oct 15, 7:55 am, Kingfish wrote:
I read about Singapore Airlines taking delivery (finally) of its first
A380. The article said the plane was configured with 471 seats, which
I found odd seeing as the plane's 550-pax capacity has been pitched by
Airbus since day one (never mind the 800-pax max density seating aka
cattle truck) I realize every airline will configure the plane to fit
their own needs, but that sounds like a big drop in seat count. Makes
me wonder why they didn't just buy more 747-400s.

Signapore airlines is known as a premier comfort airline. Odds are
that they have lots of passenger amenities with this seating
configuration...

Onboard Olympic sized swimming pool with a swim up bikini bar.
Jim

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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"Jim Burns" wrote in
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Could the answer be "freight"? With 471 full seats what is the
remaining
payload capability?
Jim

Nah, it's just a load of beds in first or a full sized badminton court or
some such. they wouldn't be running the #1 bus in a QC or combi config.

Bertie

"Jim Burns" wrote in
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Onboard Olympic sized swimming pool with a swim up bikini bar.


Kewl.

"The Love Plane"

I still got too much hair to be Capt Stubing, though.

Bertie

"Kingfish" wrote in message
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On Oct 15, 10:11 am, Thomas Borchert
wrote:
Kingfish,

Makes
me wonder why they didn't just buy more 747-400s.

The seats are different. Very. Wait for the pics.

???

Does that justify spending bazillions on new aircraft? I thought the
whole point of A380 was more bodies onboard, then SIA only puts in 471
seats? Does't make sense to me.

As Singapore airlines has probably made more profit in the last 10 years
than the whole of the big US legacy carriers put together, I would suspect
their judgement is better than anything the US has to offer.

As Singapore airlines has probably made more profit in the last 10 years
than the whole of the big US legacy carriers put together, I would suspect
their judgement is better than anything the US has to offer.

I confess I know nothing about Singapore Airlines, so bear with me.

How is it that they are so profitable, in a cut-throat, competitive
world-wide market?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

"The Love Plane"

I thought Richard Branson was doing that with staterooms in an A380.

("Jim Burns" wrote)
Onboard Olympic sized swimming pool with a swim up bikini bar.


I'm seeing more of a wave pool.


Montblack

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:32:38 -0500, "Montblack"
wrote:

("Jim Burns" wrote)
Onboard Olympic sized swimming pool with a swim up bikini bar.


I'm seeing more of a wave pool.

Super-secret video of testing pool testing:

http://www.wanttaja.com/slosh.mpg

:-)

Ron Wanttaja

On Oct 15, 9:55 am, Kingfish wrote:
I read about Singapore Airlines taking delivery (finally) of its first
A380. The article said the plane was configured with 471 seats, which
I found odd seeing as the plane's 550-pax capacity has been pitched by
Airbus since day one (never mind the 800-pax max density seating aka
cattle truck) I realize every airline will configure the plane to fit
their own needs, but that sounds like a big drop in seat count. Makes
me wonder why they didn't just buy more 747-400s.

It's a bait and switch. They'll launch the bird with lots of room and
hype to match, then after it gets a reputation as comfortable plane to
fly, they'll quietly add seats until it's closer to th 550 number than
471.

"Kingfish" wrote in message ups.com...
On Oct 15, 10:11 am, Thomas Borchert
wrote:
Kingfish,

Makes
me wonder why they didn't just buy more 747-400s.

The seats are different. Very. Wait for the pics.

???

Does that justify spending bazillions on new aircraft? I thought the
whole point of A380 was more bodies onboard, then SIA only puts in 471
seats? Does't make sense to me.


Singapore flies less than 350 seats in its 47's: http://www.seatexpert.com/_SQ_Boeing_747_400_V1.html