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A380 Continues To Conquer The World, But Still Has Leaky Sink

March 17, 2009 at 12:22 PM | by | Comments (0)

When we last left the biggest bird in the sky, The A380, she was looking to welcome her one-millionth passenger aboard Singapore Airlines. Now she’s looking to continue her world dominance, by initiating service from Toronto to Dubai three times a week starting in June thanks to Emirates. Hopefully the citizens of Canada can provide some life into the Middle East party zone, because all we here about it lately is more and more bad news.

To handle the big beast, Toronto Pearson International Airport had to fix up some of its infrastructure. Over the last 10 years the airport had been sprucing things up, including strengthening and widening the runway. They’ve also got two new double-decker gates that can handle the unloading of almost 500 passengers and their 1,000 pieces of carry on luggage.

However, all is not well is the land of the super jumbo jets. Emirates isn’t totally happy with their orders, especially since they’ve had some lingering issues. Apparently airline officials made a huge list—like over forty pages huge—and shared it with Airbus officials on a recent field trip to their headquarters in Toulouse.

Airbus said that they’re doing everything they can to fix these issues—and they should since Emirates has placed orders for 58 of these plans. If there is ever a time for good customer service, then this is probably it. For now, Emirates is committed to their orders, but when you’re signing the check that can always change.

Related Stories:
·Dubai Whale Of A Jet Flying To YYZ [Toronto Star]
·Emirates Airline Still Believes In Superjumbo [AP, via Google]
·Airbus Says Working To Solve Emirates A380 Issues [Reuters]
·a380 coverage [Jaunted]

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