A380 Delivery Delay

[Feyd]

When was original delivery date for SQ? This is just one source, so it make be a few days/weeks to see if this story is confirmed.

GERMAN PRESS: Airbus Delays A380 Delivery
Monday May 2, 2005, 12:12 pm

BERLIN (Dow Jones)--Airbus (ABI.YY) will postpone the delivery of the world's biggest airliner, the A380, until late 2006, reports Financial Times Deutschland. The airline maker said it negotiated a new agreement with its first customer, Singapore Airlines (S55.SG), for the plane.

Newspaper Web site: http://www.ftd.de

http://au.biz.yahoo.com/050502/18/49nr.html

[FlyingPhotog]

If they have one flying, I find it suspicious that they need a year and a half to work our all the kinks.

[billiam]

Aviation Week & Space Technology had quoted a date of June 2006 for the "nominal" first delivery to SQ. In the same article, SQ claims that it has NO confirmation of the actual schedule from 'bus. The article was from 3/28/2005.

[CanVoodoo]

On the subject of A380 deliveries -- I note that Emirates Airlines has 40+ A380s on order.

I admit to being puzzled. Any idea what they're going to do with that many of these aircraft? Or is this one of those cases where normal economics doesn't apply?

Martin

[vojoboy]

Originally Posted by PT737SWA

If they have one flying, I find it suspicious that they need a year and a half to work our all the kinks.

This was bound to happen since the first flight was delayed by a few months. They need about a year to do the certification tests. Note that since this is a new Aircraft (and not a derivative) it doesnt have any "grandfather" FAA/JAA certificates to inherit from.

Im just wondering what the "financial" implications are for the deferred delivery (for SQ in particular).

[FlyingPhotog]

Originally Posted by vojoboy

This was bound to happen since the first flight was delayed by a few months. They need about a year to do the certification tests. Note that since this is a new Aircraft (and not a derivative) it doesnt have any "grandfather" FAA/JAA certificates to inherit from.

Im just wondering what the "financial" implications are for the deferred delivery (for SQ in particular).

On the bright side it will give airports more time to make improvements that will allow the plane to service that city.