First A380 delivery

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

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, 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...

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.

On Oct 15, 2:44 pm, xyzzy wrote:
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.

*******s...

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.

*******s...

I don't think that is a given assumption, or it is not necessarily correct.

As has been stated here, Singapore Air sells luxury seats, and does very
nicely in the profit column doing it, and has been doing it for a while.
--
Jim in NC

"Kingfish" wrote in message
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On Oct 15, 2:44 pm, xyzzy wrote:
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.

*******s...

One of the biggest growth areas in Europe are flights to the US where the
configuration is all business class i.e. 100 seats in a 767 at well under
normal business class prices.

http://www.flysilverjet.com/?campaign=811

People are a bit fed up with cattle class. Sure it suits some but I have no
sympathy with a 6'6" 250lb guy whinging about there being no room when he
has only paid $200 for a transatlantic ticket.