Comments on: Airbus PR stunt a success

By: blork blog » Blog Archive » Airbus A380: Some Numbers

blork blog » Blog Archive » Airbus A380: Some Numbers — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:22:32 +0000

[...] talking about the Airbus A380 that landed at Montreal’s Pierre Elliot Trudeau airport yesterday. [...]

By: Neath

Neath — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:12:21 +0000

Sort of reminds me of the time ( in the 80's) when they piggybacked one of the Space Shuttles over Montreal. I don't know if anyone can tell you the rational that was behind that, but it was cool to see!

By: Pierre Phaneuf

Pierre Phaneuf — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:00:35 +0000

The damned thing pretty much circled the sky all the time in the last year that I spent in Toulouse, so it was kind of "meh", as far as I'm concerned. I've been told that a fully loaded A380 uses less gas than fully loaded Yaris'es to carry the same number of people on the same distance, but I haven't checked...

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:56:08 +0000

Apparently Air France is going to use their (this?) A380 on the Paris-Montreal and Paris-New York routes. And one fully loaded A380 uses much less fuel than two filled Boeing 777s.

But of course you are right: it's just a PR stunt.