HOLY CRAP that is one huge airplane.. whats the inside look like?

here are some VR files:

http://www.airbus.com/product/a380_comfort.asp


Pretty darn impressive!!

Them roomy interiors are the design depts wet dream. It's more likely that most airlines will go for the 'we would rather use the extra room to cram in more people' option.

interesting info:

http://ardent.mit.edu/airports/ASP_...he%20A380.pp t

That's true. Airbus has everything in their drawers, but they only build it on demand. when there's no demand, nobody wants to buy it, then they won't build it.


-Thilo

That is once nice plane. Wouldn't mind living in it just jetting around the world. Boy that would be nice.

4 real.

Are those interiors standard or just special order ones? Plus are they even in the production versions or just concepts?

Yeah... I want to see what close looks like

I would think that the market for a plane that big (nice as it is) is very limited. Many carriers now like to use smaller planes - better fuel efficiency, and it is can be easier to put more bums in the seats when you offer more frequent choices on smaller planes rather than 1 flight on a jumbo.

perhaps the US military can use them though...live troops on one deck, body bags on the other. (oops...guess i should politicize the thread!)

sweet French ownage.

What the hell was that all about? Not cool.

I'd do it in a Revision B or C =P

Hope Boeing will do ok in the future =/

That's not exactly true. The major international hub airports, Heathrow being a prime example, are rapidly running out of slots. Larger aircraft are a solution to that problem. On long haul there is a huge demand for larger, more luxurious planes. From what I know the increased interior space will actually benefit the passenger, with bars and common areas becoming the norm in most configurations.

Also, the A380 is vastly more fuel efficient then anything else in the air at the moment - mile for mile it needs less fuel per passenger than your average family saloon car does.

one guy thats a member here is an engineer working ont he airbus 380 project. Not sure who though

hahaha, do you really think the US military would buy from Airbus? That would be seen as a defeat. They would only support american corporations such as Boeing, regardless of the quality.

180 A380 are ordered already as far as i know. As for the configurations and interior: Airbus goes for the customer demand. Arabic airlines for example want a special carpet or the same star constellations at the ceiling as you see in Mekka. Makes one or two million euros more, but they actually pay for it. but airbus only builds the designs if someone wants them. if nobody (as in no airliner) wants internet on-board, then there is no internet on-board. this kind of reminds me of apple. they are saving on a lot too (RAM!).


- Thilo

this is badidea's territory.

Wow, you got just about everything backwards there is to get.

Let's hope Boeing gets this thing operational in the near future:

http://www.aerosite.net/bwb.htm

Them europeans need to be taught a lesson for trying to embarass us.

Wow. A Stealth commercial jet. And it'll be cheaper, with the falling dollar.

What airlines have orders for it? I could See Virgin, Singapore Airlines and Emirates all taking it. In fact, at Singapore's airport, there's already plans on renovations/changes to allow the monster planes to use the same runaways and the same (modified) terminals as other airliners.

Something like that would be awesome on the non-stop Singapore-New York leg, or the non-stop Sydney-New York that are in the works.

27 August 2004
A380 CUSTOMERS

To date, Airbus has received 139 orders and commitments from 13 customers

A380 customers to date are (by alphabetical order):

Air France: 10

Emirates: 43, including two freighters

Etihad Airways: 4

Federal Express: 10 freighters

International Lease Finance Corporation: five A380s and five A380 freighters

Korean Air Lines: 5

Lufthansa: 15

Malaysia Airlines: 6

Qantas Airways: 12

Qatar Airways: 2

Singapore Airlines: 10

Thai Airways International: 6

Virgin Atlantic Airways: 6

It's a terrorists wet dream. It just screams,"Fly me into something!"

The A380 should also and above all contribute to make long-distance intercontinental flights a real mass transit system, at the same time favouring high-speed trains and their neworks on shorter, transcontinental distances: an optimisation of the use of transportation resources, thus. Ideally, of course - then, in practice, one never knows what will happen...

looks like the very old carton from the 40s. the mama and papa prop airplanes give birth to a jet airplane. that photo looks like the father, minus his props.

Those chairs are shockingly ugly!

I was thinking of something taller.

Each interior will be custom built to order. I think the FedEx ones are going to be pretty stripped down. Even if you never get to fly on one though, maybe at least your next PowerBook will!




I don't see many people getting on a plane without windows down the side. I love to fly and that would give even me the fear.



I really hate what the attacks did to commercial airliners even more than those beautiful buildings. We collect 400th scale models of passenger jets and after 9/11 I stopped seeing them as beautiful manmade birds for at least a year and could only see them as flying bombs. I'd get tears ever time I looked at the shelf with the planes on it. Hopefully the A380 has enough safeguards built in that your prediction never comes true.