Tourism Indochina: British Airways A380 begins construction

British Airways A380 begins construction

Construction has begun on British Airways’ first super jumbo, the Airbus A380, due for delivery next year.

British Airways has ordered 12 of the world’s roomiest aircraft, the A380, and 24 Boeing 787 Dreamliners, which means it is on track to be first airline in the world to have both new aircraft types in its fleet.

Routes for the airline’s first A380 and B787 will be announced in due course.

Keith Williams, British Airways’ chief executive said: “We’re really excited that work has started on building the first of our 12 Airbus A380s.

“They represent a significant part of a huge investment by British Airways, of £5bn over the next five years in new aircraft, smarter cabins, elegant lounges, and new technologies to make life more comfortable in the air and on the ground.

“Our teams across the airline have been working in partnership with Airbus to ensure that preparations are well underway for us to receive this pioneering and leading edge aircraft, so that it goes smoothly into service for British Airways for the first time next year.

“Until then, we’ll continue working towards the successful delivery of both the A380 and B787, to ensure our customers have a fantastic flying experience on these amazing aircraft.”

The first parts of the A380 to be constructed are the forward fuselage and the aft fuselage sections which are being assembled and equipped in Hamburg.

Other parts of the fuselage such as the nose and the centre sections are being assembled in Saint Nazaire and Meaulte in France, as well as the tailfin in Stade (France), while the horizontal tail plane is manufactured in Spain.

Meanwhile, the undercarriage is being assembled in Canada and France, the wings in Broughton in Lancashire, and the Rolls Royce engines in Derbyshire.

Dedicated teams across British Airways are working behind the scenes for the entry into service of both the A380 and B787 Dreamliner later next year.

Work has involved teams from engineering, flight operations, cabin and flight crew, customer services, ground and airport operations, marketing, IT, strategy and planning to ensure both aircraft move swiftly into service.

Last year British Airways completed the latest phase of a multi-million pound redevelopment of its Heathrow engineering base to prepare for the arrival of the new fleet of A380s, B787s and Boeing 777-300s.

This included a new 24 tonne roof ‘eyebrow’ which was lifted into place in one of the aircraft hangars, which raised the height of the entrance to accommodate the A380’s 24 metre tailfin. Source: breakingtravelnews/17-Apr-2012

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Tourism Indochina: Air Boeing, First Boeing 747:8

Tourism Indochina: Air Boeing, First Boeing 747:8

The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001. Boeing is made up of multiple business units, which are Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA); Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS); Engineering, Operations & Technology; Boeing Capital; and Boeing Shared Services Group.
Boeing is among the largest global aircraft manufacturers by revenue, orders and deliveries, and the third largest aerospace and defense contractor in the world based on defense-related revenue. Boeing is the largest exporter by value in the United States. Its stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Tourism Indochina: Air Boeing, First Boeing 747:

(Tourism Indochina:Date : 2011-09-12):

The first Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental emerged from the paint hangar at Boeing’s Everett factory near Seattle on Sunday resplendent in the Lufthansa livery. The fuselage is painted in the classic Lufthansa White, while the tailfin and the Lufthansa logo on the fuselage are painted in Night Blue. The Lufthansa emblem on the tailfin – an encircled crane in flight – is offset in Night Blue against a Melon Yellow background.

After completing extensive ground tests, the aircraft will undergo initial test flights in November, and is scheduled to go into service next spring with the registration D-ABYA. Lufthansa is the launch customer for the passenger version of the Boeing 747-8 and has therefore been involved from the outset in the design of the aircraft. The Boeing 747-8 has been stretched by six metres compared with the Boeing 747-400. The new Jumbo measures 76.3 metres in length, making it the world’s longest passenger airliner.

The Boeing 747-8 is also setting new standards in terms of sustainability. For example, the redesigned wings with their state-of-the-art profile and ranked wingtips give the aircraft an aerodynamic advantage. In addition, the newly developed GEnx-2B67 engines offer greater fuel efficiency as well as reduced emissions and noise levels. The Boeing 747-8 consumes 13 per cent less fuel than the Boeing 747-400.

Lufthansa has ordered 20 Boeing 747-8s, which are due for delivery from the beginning of 2012 through to mid-2015, and also has options on a further 20 aircraft. Source ETB


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Tourism Indochina: Air travel, freight declines accelerated in November, IATA says

Tourism Indochina: Air travel, freight declines accelerated in November, IATA says

(Tourism Indochina:Date : 2008-12-31:)

Worldwide air travel fell for a third straight month in November, with cargo handling logging a “shocking” decline because of weakening global trade, the International Air Transport Association said.

Passenger traffic, or kilometers flown multiplied by the number of travelers, slumped 4.6 percent from a year earlier, IATA said today in a statement on its Web site. That compares with a 1.3 percent decline in October and a 2.9 percent drop in September. Freight traffic plunged almost 14 percent, the sixth straight monthly decrease.

The decline in air travel outstripped a 1 percent reduction in capacity and is likely to lead to airlines logging losses in the fourth quarter, according to Giovanni Bisignani, IATA’s chief executive officer. Japan’s sales abroad plunged the most on record in November, while Germany’s exports in October fell 0.5 percent and those of the U.S. fell 2.2 percent.

“The industry is now shrinking by all measures,” Bisignani said in the statement. The decline in freight transport “clearly shows the rapid fall in global trade and the broadening impact of the economic slowdown.”

Asia-Pacific freight traffic fell 17 percent, the largest decline of any region, the association said. China’s exports decreased for the first time in seven years in November while imports plunged, China’s customs bureau reported Dec. 10.

Geneva- and Montreal-based IATA estimates that more than one-third of the value of goods traded internationally is transported by air.

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