Philip Argy
9th September 2008, 02:37 PM
News just reported on The Sydney Morning Herald website:
Airline Emirates has stopped flying its Airbus A380 superjumbo just over a month after its first commercial flight.
The airline said that planned engineering work was "taking longer than expected", but London's Telegraph reported that an electrical fault was to blame for the halt on flights.
The fault "was noticed at the end of a training mission" a spokeperson told the Telegraph. The airline denied rumours sweeping the internet forums of air travel websites that the showers in the first-class bathrooms were connected to the problem.
The Emirates A380 currently flies a Dubai-New York route. The airline said Boeing 777-300ERs would fly the route in the interim. A380 flights are scheduled to resume on September 12.
Airline Emirates has stopped flying its Airbus A380 superjumbo just over a month after its first commercial flight.
The airline said that planned engineering work was "taking longer than expected", but London's Telegraph reported that an electrical fault was to blame for the halt on flights.
The fault "was noticed at the end of a training mission" a spokeperson told the Telegraph. The airline denied rumours sweeping the internet forums of air travel websites that the showers in the first-class bathrooms were connected to the problem.
The Emirates A380 currently flies a Dubai-New York route. The airline said Boeing 777-300ERs would fly the route in the interim. A380 flights are scheduled to resume on September 12.