Emirates A380
 

Can anyone remind me when Emirates A380 is due into Sydney, Is it the first of february arriving Syd or departing Dubai?

Arrives Monday 2nd Feb.

Cheers Nigel.

Bloody oath!! Any ideas on the rego? Im hoping for EDA.

This is the Press Release I got today from SAC:
The first A380 flight on the Sydney-Auckland route will be made on Monday by Emirates flight EK412.


This is an important milestone as it is the first A380 flight on Sydney’s most popular international route. Last year more than 1.2 million passengers flew between Sydney and Auckland, accounting for more than 11% of Sydney Airport’s international travellers.


Sydney Airport has congratulated Emirates on its achievement in making the historic first flight of an A380 from Sydney to Auckland and the CEO of Sydney Airport, Russell Balding, welcomed the fact that this aircraft is just one of the fifty A380s that Emirates will be flying.


“The introduction of the A380 into commercial service across the Tasman is a great achievement, and I congratulate Emirates on flying the A380 on this very popular route.

“The fact that Emirates is acquiring 50 A380s means that while today’s historic flight represents a new first in aviation across the Tasman, there will be many more A380 flights from Sydney Airport in the years ahead.

“The A380 is good news for Sydney because it means quieter flights. The A380 has new-generation engines and advanced wing and landing gear design which produce less noise and air emissions than other large aircraft.

“The significance of the A380 is that it can carry more passengers than other aircraft meaning that fewer and quieter A380 flights are required to transport the same number of passengers,” Mr Balding said.

The Australian Government agency Airservices Australia has released a report showing that the A380 is between 2.3 and 6.7 decibels quieter than the 747-400 when departing Sydney Airport.
The report states that “a three decibel reduction is regarded as a halving of an aircraft’s noise energy.”

In fact, the Emirates A380 has attracted complaints that it is too quiet.

Sydney Airport has invested $120 million in upgrading aviation infrastructure including new aerobridges and strengthening the main runway to accommodate the A380.

Emirates becomes the third airline, after Singapore Airlines and Qantas, to fly the new A380 to and from Sydney Airport and the first to do so on the most important gateway into New Zealand.

Times?
 

Anyone know the arrival and departure times?

If it's the EK412 the it normally arrives at 0655.

We depart at 8:30am and arrive in Auckland at 1:30pm. Im on the left side, 2 windows behind the second front left exit. Get your photos!

I am 10 windows in front of Tim :D

And Blake is about 5 back from you haha. Im back on Tuesday's EK413 777-200/LR if anyone is spotting that day.

Hi Tim and Matt

I will be onboard (seat unassigned on upper deck).

There will be a ceremony, reception and press conference in AKL (Gate 15)

ETD 0830
Arrive back SYD 2005 local time.

See you guys onboard !

Noo Wayy!! Thats awesome Sam! Hopefully we can have a drink at the bar if were aloud. But deffinatly come and see us because im not sure if we'll be aloud upstairs but we might if you could take us. What are the chances of a flight deck visit you reckon? Its the icing on the cake really.

Tim

If you're too loud, they probably won't allow you anywhere near the bar...

Anyone know the rego?

Either EDB or EDD. EDA is outbound to LHR as EK1 and EDC is at JFK.

EDB is currently doing LHR-DXB Matt Mcdonald said so im assuming EDD. Thanks Jason

EDD was heading for DBX this morning our time, so I would say that she is the one.

ACARS mode: 2 Aircraft reg: A6-EDD [Airbus A388]
Message label: HF Block id: 0 Msg no: 0000
Flight id: UAE002 [LHR-DXB] [Emirates]
Message content:-
UAE2 ,.NO-REG,8960E5,165310,N46284E024064;
----------------------------------------------------------[ 31/01/2009 17:53 ]- UTC

A6-EDD confirmed.

Currently the ETA is 7.08am local.

Just lifted off on 34L with various board members hopefully snapping lots of photos!

Here are a few of mine from her departure. Obviously heat haze was an issue.
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Darren :)

nice photos there

Awesome stuff. Who will be the next carrier to bring the A380 to Sydney after these 3?

Hard to predict and haven't heard of any specific plans.

Looking at the production slots (up to 70) we have Korean, China Southern, Air France and Lufthansa. Rest is QF, SQ and EK.

Etihad I Reckon will be next

Could be!! Originally they were going to take the 4 test aircraft from Airbus but from memory they scrapped that and ordered new ones.

Here's one I took.

Regards,
Warren

Anyone get a picture of all three 380's of SQ, QF and EK together.

What are the odds?

I tried... shame SQ is parked nose in.

Micheil

My guess is that MAS will be the next A380 to come here.( message coming to you from Auckland)

The flight was amazing although we didnt get much free stuff to say we were on the inaugural which was dissapointing. unfortunatly we didnt see Sam Chui come down from the upper deck and we werent even aloud there after the flight even just for photos although we did have plenty of time in the flight deck. Myself. Tim and Blake will do a joint trip report from the trip. We arrive home on Friday and Tim arrives tomorrow(Tues) both on the 77L.

Matt

So is tomorrow`s B777-200LR the first of it kind in Sydney?

Sorry bad post wasn`t thinking ,Air Canada have been coming for a while now.

First EK 77L though :cool:

Todays' offering is A6-EWE.

That would be a great shot if anyone gets it. Sydney is in the unique position of being the only current airport being served by an A380 from all airlines who currently fly it commercially.

Err what about Heathrow?

Does EK serve LHR with the A380? I thought it was only DXB-JFK and DXB-SYD-AKL. If EK do serve LHR with the A380 then I happily stand corrected. Either way it would still be a great shot of all three together.

Yep they serve LHR too

http://biztravelguru.com/blogs/busin...-heathrow.aspx

Great. Maybe if schedules fit someone can find a shot of all three at LHR too. The A380 is starting to grow on me. May have to grab a cheap fare to AKL at some stage!

Trevor,

nice mention of the flight on Vega last night - also the plug for the spotters weekend