Airbus A380 to make an appearance in Dublin Airport today.

Run_to_da_hills

This time of year again.

shep1

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

This time of year again.

I flew on one from London to Singapore last October, the best flight ever, smooth.....................................Loved it!:)

Grease Monkey

Hmmmmm What date is it again:rolleyes:

shep1

Grease Monkey wrote: »

Hmmmmm What date is it again:rolleyes:

Ah **** it!:o

KamiKazi

Oh you big joker guy you.

tricky D

I just saw it on approach to 28!

Plowman

This post has been deleted.

Tropheus

May God forgive you, because I won't;)

pclancy

Lol is all I can say. Is there even space for it to taxi at Dublin?

lord lucan

I thought this one was particularly good for the day that's in it!:D

http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/blogs/contrails/archive/2010/04/01/ryanair-to-reduce-cabin-crew-headcount-in-vending-machine-rollout.aspx

It's actually believable too!:)

Run_to_da_hills

More about it <snip> in the Irish Times

Plowman

This post has been deleted.

imtired999

I heard it had to divert to Weston due to sheep on the runway at Dublin airport.

Morpheus

I thought this was a good one...

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100330/BIZ/703309959

until i realised it was posted TWO DAYS AGO!!!:eek:

yhwh

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

More about it <snip> here[/URL] in the Irish Times

Mods pls delete that link, my computer crashed because of it :mad:

Blue Punto

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

More about it <snip> here[/URL] in the Irish Times

What ever about stupid april fools joke by posting that your the fool as it interferes/crashes the pc its run on


NOT GOOD IF ITS A WORK PC



MODS please remove the above link

St. Leibowitz

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

More about it <snip> here[/URL] in the Irish Times

Crap like that deserves a permanent ban. Plain stupid, and not funny.

steve french

hahaha brilliant!!! how do i do that rickroll link thing

Andrew33

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

This time of year again.

Ok, so its a gag but what would stop a 380 landing at EIDW? I assume the "parking" boxes at DUB aren't big enough but is that the only thing that'd stop it? There are some small structures by the side of 28/10 but would these interfere with the aircraft landing? Is the main runway strong enough to take the beasts weight? How long before a 380 shows up on a charter run to Lanzarote or Malaga or wherever? All the greats have ended their days flying charters!

Plowman

This post has been deleted.

donkey balls

my old company was going be the launch company for the A380F the only thing we needed to do was reconfigure the stands,the rwy was long enough.

Plowman

This post has been deleted.

Andrew33

Continuing the A380 theme! It seems all A380 flights from Europe head east, none west. Is this the case? Are there no operators crossing the pond with one?

globemaster1986

Air France use the A380 froom CDG to JFK and also CDG to Johannesburg!

donvito99

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

More about it <snip> here[/URL] in the Irish Times

You backstard.

probe

These A-380s are super green machines with their tiny 310,000 litre fuel capacity, (accommodating 700 odd PAX).

A small paddle boat like this: http://www.nandjyachtsforcharter.com/yachts/leander/ would suck in 300,000 litres during a tank up - with perhaps 2 PAX on board (aside form the 30 odd crew).....

The yacht probably provides more on-board jobs than an A-380 too!

pclancy

I'm sorry for not getting to this sooner, please use the reported post function to let me or the other mods know if stuff like this happens again.

OP banned as a result, I think he should have known way better then to post crap like that link.

eia340600

Plowman wrote: »

This post has been deleted.

Odd.Seeing as how the A380 has a suprisingly small required runway length.Much shorter, in fact, than the 747 or 777.Aer Lingus flew the 747 out of Dublin and Air France Cargo regularly fly the 777 into Dublin so I don't think an A380 would be a problem.None of the passenger gates could handle the volume of people though.

But sure it could come over just for the craic every once in a while.Give us something to talk about..;)

Plowman

This post has been deleted.

spatchco

does any of the flight paths for the a380 pass oh dublin,if yes would you be able to recogonise it from the ground,ie size and or shape.
thanks,

Andrew33

spatchco wrote: »

does any of the flight paths for the a380 pass oh dublin,if yes would you be able to recogonise it from the ground,ie size and or shape.
thanks,

Complete guess but I reckon CDG to JFK route would be somewhere well north of Dublin but we live in hope, very easy to see Heathrow bound stuff over Dublin. Usually Virgin 340's and BA 747's.

globemaster1986

Andrew33 wrote: »

Complete guess but I reckon CDG to JFK route would be somewhere well north of Dublin but we live in hope, very easy to see Heathrow bound stuff over Dublin. Usually Virgin 340's and BA 747's.

I was in Killarney back in Feb and i think i saw an A380 overhead heading west. Wasn't able to make it out for sure but it thought it was....

St. Leibowitz

Emirates are quite regular over Ireland, I presume the Dubai-Toronto service on Monday, Wednesday and Friday,but not sure. I know I've snagged some on the SBS-1. I'll check the database later and see what times they pass over, and also if I've snagged any other operators, although it isn't on all the time, and hasn't been used for about a month or so. Must dig it out and set it up again.

St. Leibowitz

Surprisingly, the Emirates flights I have were all last May. UAE201 and 202, Dubai JFK and JFK Dubai. Don't think A380s are used on that route anymore, since I haven't snagged any since then. Westbound passed over between 12:53 and 13.08 Irish time. Eastbound between 9:35 and 10:26 Irish time.

Also have Air France 006, Paris to JFK, from Feburary 2010, passing over at 15:33 Irish time.

Andrew33

St. Leibowitz wrote: »

Surprisingly, the Emirates flights I have were all last May. UAE201 and 202, Dubai JFK and JFK Dubai. Don't think A380s are used on that route anymore, since I haven't snagged any since then. Westbound passed over between 12:53 and 13.08 Irish time. Eastbound between 9:35 and 10:26 Irish time.

Also have Air France 006, Paris to JFK, from Feburary 2010, passing over at 15:33 Irish time.

Where are you located?

St. Leibowitz

Dublin

Garco

lufthansa will be flying there first 380 hamburg jfk, so that will soon be passing over

Dacian

Heres pics of the A380 over Ireland on flickr, this guy regularly has great pics.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eigjb/4377405790/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eigjb/3566602157/

John C

Garco wrote: »

lufthansa will be flying there first 380 hamburg jfk, so that will soon be passing over

Lufthansa's A380 base for scheduled flights is Frankfurt.

From 11th June Lufthansa operate a schedulde A380 service from Frankfurt to Tokyo.
Later LH operate an A380 service to Beijing and Johannesburg.


http://www.lufthansa.com/de/en/Lufthansa-A380-the-new-fascination-of-flight

N7777G

John C wrote: »

Lufthansa's A380 base for scheduled flights is Frankfurt.

From 11th June Lufthansa operate a schedulde A380 service from Frankfurt to Tokyo.
Later LH operate an A380 service to Beijing and Johannesburg.


http://www.lufthansa.com/de/en/Lufthansa-A380-the-new-fascination-of-flight

I captured this at Frankfurt yesterday:-

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eigjb/4979996536/