In 1988 engineers at the Airbus headquarters in Toulouse started work on a highly ambitious project, the possibility of a commercial UHCA (ultra-high-capacity aircraft). By 1993 Boeing and Deutsche Aerospace, a member of the Airbus consortium, surprisingly declared they were joining forces on a VLCT (very large commercial transport) feasibility study, with the aim to create a product in a shared partnership that would lead in the limited market [7]. Nevertheless two years later this study was abandoned due to viability from increasing development costs. This lead to Airbus announcing in June 1994 that they were to develop their own long-range UHCA, named the A3XX. This development project was the start of what became the A380, the worlds’ first superjumbo jet. [6]
The Airbus A380 was first put into service on 25th October 2005 flying from Singapore to Sydney. One of the main purposes was to try and gain some of the large-aircraft market that was so heavily dominated by Boeing, especially with the 747. However unlike the Boeing 747, the top deck of the A380 extends the full length of the fuselage meaning there is an extra 40% more floor space [5]. This means the A380 is certified to carry up to 853 passengers in a one-class configuration, although no airliners have chosen this configuration to date. The passenger capacity varies on the aircraft that are currently in service depending on the airline, at the present time Korean Air has the fewest seats at 407 [9]. This is made up of 12 first and 301 economy seats on the lower deck and 94 business class seats on the upper deck. Lufthansa on the other hand has some aircraft with a capacity of 526 [8]. This is achieved by having 420 economy seats on the lower deck, whilst the upper dec...
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[5] http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/boeing39s-747-8-vs-a380-a-titanic-tussle-205137/
[6] Airbus A380 superjumbo of the 21st century, guy Norris and mark Wagner, published 2005
[7] http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/creating-a-titan-199071/
[8] https://www.lufthansa.com/uk/en/Seat-maps
[9] http://www.koreanair.com/local/na/gd/eng/au/of/au_of_10.jsp
[10] http://www.iata.org/pressroom/pr/Pages/2013-10-31-01.aspx
[11] http://www.seatplans.com/airlines/
[12] http://www.airbus.com/aircraftfamilies/passengeraircraft/a380family/innovation/
[13] http://www.fzt.haw-hamburg.de/pers/Scholz/dglr/hh/text_2008_01_30_A380.pdf
[14] http://www.rosler-aerospace.com/uploads/media/aerospace_edition_2701_en_02.pdf
[15] http://www.airbus.com/innovation/eco-efficiency/design/
[16] http://www.mcgill.ca/files/iasl/Dan_Cohen-Nir.pdf
The First World War was monumental in history because of all the new technology that was introduced. One particular area that developed during the Great War was the use of airplanes by the German and Allied militaries. In comparison, they both had different mentalities towards an invention that was only made successful less than a decade before the outbreak of war in 1914 by the Wright Brothers in North Carolina, United States. The German Military welcomed the idea with open arms, investing in its potential for military uses, whereas the Allies remained reserved and hesitant, claiming that aircraft could not be used for anything more offensive than reconnaissance missions. These differences in opinions later affected the development of each air force. The German military kept making consistent improvements to their equipment whereas the allied pilots were slow in their respective air force evolution. However, there was a common progression that both militaries had which was the slow phasing out of the cavalry on either side due to the effectiveness of the aircrafts reconnaissance and battle capabilities. During the World War One, the German military took advantage of the new technology available to them, which gave significant results, whereas the Allies had a more traditional mindset and followed behind at a slower pace.
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International passenger traffic to and from Australia in December 2103 was carried by forty-eight international airlines that were in operation in that month, offering seats to over three million passengers. The number of realised passengers represents a growth of 7.8% over the number of booked seats in December 2012 (BITRE, 2014). Passenger utilisation however is on the decline, with December 2013 passenger utilisation being 80.2%, a fall from 82.4% at the same time the previous year (BITRE, 2014).
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Travelling at a speed twice that of sound might seem to be something futuristic; however, this feat has already been achieved almost 40 years ago by the world’s only supersonic passenger aircraft-The Concorde. Concorde brought a revolution in the aviation industry by operating transatlantic flights in less than four hours. The slick and elegant aircraft with one of the most sophisticated engineering was one of the most coveted aircrafts of its time. However, this was all destined to end when Air France Flight 4590 was involved in a tragic disaster just outside the city of Paris on July 25, 2000. The crash killed 113 people, but more disastrous was its impact. The belief and confidence people had with Concorde gradually started to fade, and finally Concorde was grounded after two and a half years of the crash. Official reports state that the main cause of the crash was a piece of metal dropped by a Continental aircraft that flew moments before Concorde, but, over the last decade, the report has met a lot of criticism, and many alternative hypotheses have thus been proposed.
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Kingfisher Airlines (KFA) was founded by Vijay Malaya and he is the chairman of United Breweries group (UB group) in the year 2003. Its first airplane was launched from Mumbai to Delhi in 9th may 2005. It started as a premium business class airline company. The airlines have a tag line “Fly the good times”. At the launch of airline, Vijay Malaya said “we are committed to achieving our ambition of making Kingfisher Airlines, India’s largest private airline both in capacity and market share. The airline ushered in a new era of luxury in India’s domestic aviation sector and its brand new aircraft with stylish red interiors, and smartly dressed crew and ground staff. Kingfisher was the first Indian airline to have in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems”. (Malaya, 2005). Kingfisher airlines are one of the seven airlines which were awarded the rating of five stars by skytrax. It operates 400 flights daily including the regional and international services. In 2009 it gave the highest market share in Indian airlines industries, carrying more than 1 million passengers. The main mistake was lack of understanding of customer requirements and luxurious facilities in airlines. Organizations focus on reducing costs and usually just CEO’S and top level managers prefer business class travel. Rest of the staff mostly travels by economy class. Moreover, buying most expensive business class tickets doesn’t go down well, when seniors aim to project the image of walking the talk. Secondly, the company is facing financial crisis since Mid-2008. After merging with Air Deccan in 2007, it is a low-cost airlines, provides minimum frills to customers at reasonable rates. Th...
Flight fee is one of the biggest nightmares of the passenger. In this regard, such an initiative is a win-win situation for the Asiana airlines. The establishment of extensive cabin retrofits is also a great improvement to the customer service delivery. The airline also boosts customer experience in a bid to achieve the airline’s sustainability through the provision of lie-flat seats. The seats boost comfort for the passengers aboard; hence, reduction of exhaustion. According to Asian Development Bank (2009), the airline provides the passengers with a sizeable monitor, especially for the business class passengers. The practical productivity of team relies on upon its hypothetical planning, information of an aeronautical building, and tenets of its operation, including exceptional circumstances, and propensities for utilization of this learning, furthermore on order and determination of pilot-in-charge of aircraft and group individuals. The administration productivity air movement, the associations of flight action and a wide range of upkeep of aircraft in the greatest degree is controlled by the proficiency of the action association in the modern undertakings, cognizance of initiators, and the moral obligation of leaders of all positions for action concerning security control of
Usually, business class seats have the following parameters: the width - 70 to 80 inches, the pitch - 48 to 60 inches, the recline - 150 to 180 degrees. To put it simply, business class passengers can enjoy themselves in comfortable seats convertible to lay-flat beds, with a lot of space for legs (you can do splits there), and the opportunity to relax and sleep as if they were in their own bed. Oh, and each seat has a power outlet - a life support system to keep your laptop breathing during the whole
Boeing Commercial Aeroplanes – Why Projects Fail. 2014. Boeing Commercial Aeroplanes – Why Projects Fail. [ONLINE] Available at:http://calleam.com/WTPF/?p=4617. [Accessed 26 March 2014].
.British Airways were the pioneers with the introduction of space beds. To keep the Singapore Airlines to continue be a leader in providing the greatest comfort service to customers, it is our recommendation that Singapore Airline should continue with the installation of the space beds as this will keep them on top of the game with their main competitors. Furthermore, for an airline's long term Business Class customers to be taken seriously, the company should offer the comfort, of either the same value or even higher, to their customers. The drawback of the larger seats (space beds) would decrease the number of seats in the business class area of a jumbo jet from 58 to 50. However, installation of spacebeds ( in long term) will hopefully bring higher income to the Singapore Airlines because of the higher seat utilization.
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