A380

[m1r3o]

hi,who are the companies in Europe that will buy the airbus A380?

[PaulAH]

Here's all of them:

...as of 6 July 2005
A380 CUSTOMERS


To date, Airbus has received 159 firm orders from 16 customers


A380 customers to date are (by alphabetical order):

Air France: 10

China Southern Airlines: 5

Emirates: 43, including two freighters

Etihad Airways: 4

Federal Express: 10 freighters

International Lease Finance Corporation: five A380s and five A380 freighters

Kingfisher Airlines : 5

Korean Air Lines: 5

Lufthansa: 15

Malaysia Airlines: 6

Qantas Airways: 12

Qatar Airways: 2

Singapore Airlines: 10

Thai Airways International: 6

UPS: 10 freighters

Virgin Atlantic Airways: 6

[m1r3o]

WOW!!!and when does the airbus start flying?

[PaulAH]

Hmm, don't know that one.

Check this out:

http://events.airbus.com/A380/default1.aspx

[pdjpeter]

cor emrites are going high on them

[xhado13]

wow!

[United844]

Just got word from a friend who works with the A380 and will be coming out JUNE of 2006!!

[pdjpeter]

i know that on 29th april shes landing at heathrow i'll be there of course

[calumd]

hey

i thought british airways bought one

[pdjpeter]

they did its coming to egll on 29th april

[ILikePlanes]

are any us airlines buying the A380?

[Full_Throttle0]

yea UPS, and virgin atlantic airways (un less VAA is europeon)

[flyingA340]

Full_Throttle0 wrote:
yea UPS, and virgin atlantic airways (un less VAA is europeon)

VAA is British .
FedEx is going to get a dozen or so A380s, too .

Phil

[FSfreak]

aww.. no canadian airlines are getting them yet...

[biddy]

I have had a meeting today with one of the airlines to fly the 380 they told me that its new date for EGLL is 18th May. Not sure what aircraft
but it should be flying under a virgin banner.