Bummer: A380 project terminated

Smelled like aspirin?....

 

and cat pee.

 

Sure it (the aspirin) wasn't the litter?...

 

I think it was the TB.

 

Was the TB Asian or European?....

 

In an empty row, grab a pillow and blanket and sleep on the floor. I did that from Chicago to Tokyo. Beats the hell out of trying to sleep in a seat.

 

I'm short but even I couldn't find a way to make the seats work for more than 30 minutes.

TZ, Asian TB.

 

I've done Atlanta-Joberg a bunch of times. 16 hours going there, 17.5 coming back. Once, I had a 7' tall dude in the center seat next to me. I stood in the galley area the entire flight, 95% unconscious due to the double dose of xanax I took. Wasn't too bad

The Seattle-Seoul flight upstairs in front on a 380 was much better, though. I hung out in the bar (only one there) for most of the flight and had 2 cute FA's serving me champagne for hours on end.

I can take just about anything... except economy trans-pac on China Southern or China Eastern. I'll do it, but its painful.

 

The best (worst?) thing on those return flights from china/ asia/ South America is the nicotine meltdowns. There's always at least one.

 

Eurocrats misread the market badly and produced a plane that was 20 years too late for its target market. Then they kept it on life support 5 years after it should’ve been killed to attempt to salvage their pride and some money. It was only a matter of time. These white elephant aerospace projects are all the same. A380, Concorde, space shuttle. Marvelously engineered, but never fulfilled their promise because of stratospheric operating costs.

 

Well they have this whale....


The Beluga XL
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/airbus-beluga-xl-first-uk-flight/index.html

 

Meanwhile, in Japan…

 

Is anyone else floored by the irony that starts around 3:15