The A-380 is becoming more popular as airlines look for ways to move the maximum amount of passengers for the least money (Stafford, 2006). The A380 is made in passenger or freight versions. The A380-800 is the largest passenger plane in the world. When passenger areas are divided into three classes, the A380 can seat 550 passengers. When the entire plane is designated economy class, it can seat 853 people. There is 50% more cabin floor space than the Boeing 747 because the A380s upper deck goes the entire length of the fuselage (“Airbus a380 airfield,”2011). In 2010 there were already over 30 in use and more are expected in the near future (Young & Wells, 2011, p. 473). Due to the size and weight of the aircraft, airports will have to make some major renovations, improvements and expansions to accommodate them.
Airport Design
Most airports were not designed to accommodate aircraft this large. The A380 requires more space, both horizontal and vertical, when taxiing, waiting and flying. Many airports are already cramped for take-off and landing slots. The suggested in-flight separation times for an A380 would be 10-30% more than that of a Boeing 747. Instead of assisting with congestion problems, the A380 could actually slow things down (Stafford, 2006).
Linear airport designs would be much more practical for the A380. They allow more flexibility in gate assignments and provide the room needed for the large aircraft. The linear design is also more efficient because it reduces taxi time and the number of turn a plane must make to get to the gate. Large aircraft cannot get to the center gates in the cross-shaped concourses. It is also much easier to expand a linear concourse than a cross shaped concourse (DeNeufvi...
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“All told, there is over 6 million square feet of public space at DIA. The airport brags that they have room to build another terminal and two more concourses and could serve 100 million passengers a year. The airport flew 50.5 million in 2008” (Anomalies Unlimited 3). There is no need for that much room in any one airport especially when they are only flying half as many as th...
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Airport planning, once carried out utilizing a single future forecast, failed to account for the complexity and uncertainty of the aviation industry. Today, it is widely assumed airport success can only be met through the utilization of a flexible, integrated planning approach that sees forecasts as incorrect.
Introduction In June 1994, Airbus announced its plan to develop its own very large airliner, designated the A3XX (Bowen, 1994). Airbus refined its plan, focusing on a 15–20% reduction in working expenses over the existing Boeing 747-400 (Harrison, 1996). To begin with, Airbus entered commercial service in October 2007 with Singapore Airlines. By December 2013, Airbus had received 304 firm orders and delivered 123 aircraft (Airbus, 2014b). Emirates has the most A380s in firm order - 140 in total (Topham, 2013).
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Airbus A380: How the Airlines Compare." Busineesstraveller.com. Panacea Publishing, 31 Aug. 2013. Web. 1 Dec. 2013.
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Airports should have more security because of drugs, illegal, and terrorist. Airport security systems have had a drastic change since the 9/11 incident. Due to the airports lack of security terrorist over took the planes and crashed them into the twin towers. Another huge part of why they need to improve airport security is drugs. More drugs are brought threw the planes due to the over secure borders along the U.S. Also it is the same for illegal immigrants that want to come to America. They take planes because the lack of airport security and there is no wall or border patrol. With all these reasons, there are a lot of things that need to be changed at airports across America. And not just the major airports all airports because there are so many things that need to be accounted for.
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...mber of commercial aircraft movements of 323,750 from all over the world in year 2012 making it the 7th busiest airport in the world.
Dubai International Airport represents the largest piece of construction in the world which was inaugurated on 14th October 2008 for public usage. Presently, it has large space area as 18, 440, 000 square feet as it boasts as the largest airport terminal in the world. The half subversive terminal have a propounded capacity of 43 million travellers and it coasted around $4.5 million to execute the procedure of its construction. It exclusively operates for the Qantas as only one of the two aircrafts can be operated under Terminal 3. The terminal occupies various Airbus A380 gates where 18 gates exist at Concourse A and 5 gates exist at Concourse B.
Airports are vast facilities covering many acres of land where passenger beginning the flight portions of their travels. The first flight by the Wright brothers in Kitty Hawk, NC in 1903 only required a runway. As the technology of flight advanced to offer passenger service, there was soon a need for a building to manage passenger needs. Airports of today provide many key services needed for the traveler whether they are beginning, transferring, or ending their journeys. The demand for air transportation rises each year, according to the Department of Transportation (United States Department of Transportation, 2013) 815.3 passengers traveled by airplanes in 2012. With the demand expected to rise, airports must be able to keep pace with services. There are many different services provided however, this report will discuss terminal design, baggage handling, and ground access.
.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.