A380 - Master Thread

[MainlyMiles]

An A380v2 is operating two ad-hoc rotations to/from Nagoya on 11 Aug and 15 Aug, replacing regular 787-10 operation.

SQ672 0120 0905 388 11AUG19
SQ671 1030 1620 388 11AUG19

SQ672 0120 0905 388 15AUG19
SQ671 1030 1620 388 15AUG19

Other dates 787-10 operates as normal.

Does anyone know why? Can't recall anything like this before. Perhaps some event in NGO?

[a340-313x]

Seems loke there's still some wing issues for the first A380s - "Apperently cracks have been found in the outer rear spars of one of the early A380's. For now it only relates to the first 25 A380 wingsets build. Airbus is formulating a phased-array sonar wing inspection procedure. Within 180months after wing-box assembly date or 147months after Airbus manufacutting date the check should be completed. It has to be repeated every 36 months."

SIA has 8 of these early built A380s of which 5 have left the fleet with 3 of its A380s belonging to this group affected. Will we see SIA dispose of these 3 planes earlier than expected or will SIA do the fix for these 3 A380s and continue with the seats reconfiguration of these earlier 3 to ver 3 standard. believed these 3 A30s are SKF, SKG and SKG all of which are over 10 years old now.
file:///C:/Users/wweelt/AppData/Local/Packages/Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe/TempState/Downloads/EASA_PAD_19-116_1%20(1).pdf

According to this link, it looks like SKI is included.

This may also explain why both SKI and SKF were out for extended periods. It seems detailed inspections are required periodically before a Service Bulletin is issued by Airbus to address the problem.

[flyguy]

Seems loke there's still some wing issues for the first A380s - "Apperently cracks have been found in the outer rear spars of one of the early A380's. For now it only relates to the first 25 A380 wingsets build. Airbus is formulating a phased-array sonar wing inspection procedure. Within 180months after wing-box assembly date or 147months after Airbus manufacutting date the check should be completed. It has to be repeated every 36 months."

SIA has 8 of these early built A380s of which 5 have left the fleet with 3 of its A380s belonging to this group affected. Will we see SIA dispose of these 3 planes earlier than expected or will SIA do the fix for these 3 A380s and continue with the seats reconfiguration of these earlier 3 to ver 3 standard. believed these 3 A30s are SKF, SKG and SKH all of which are over 10 years old now.
file:///C:/Users/wweelt/AppData/Local/Packages/Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe/TempState/Downloads/EASA_PAD_19-116_1%20(1).pdf

[SQ228]

9V-SKI back on service on SQ306 after out for around 45 days (since 20/5)

9V-SKG perform SQ231/222 again

9V-SKY is being deployed on SQ807 (SIN-PEK) today.

That will have to make a serious difference. There must be a lot of staff in passenger operations pleased to see SKI take off! It will take them a day or two to get all of the A380s back in their correct rotations I imagine.

[MainlyMiles]

SQ638/637 SIN-NRT-SIN changes from A380v2 (12R86J36W245Y) to A380v3 (6R78J44W343Y) from 1 Jan 2020.

New 2017 Suites and Business Class seats for those interested.

[sbs2716g]

9V-SKI back on service on SQ306 after out for around 45 days (since 20/5)

9V-SKG perform SQ231/222 again

9V-SKY is being deployed on SQ807 (SIN-PEK) today.

[SQ228]

How many of these 3 are out due to a refit? I’m starting to wonder if the tight allocation of aircraft will persist all through the refit programme since there are no new A380 deliveries.

I think only SKT is out for refit. SKI is a mysterious one though- whatever is keeping it out of service is pretty major.

All information so far has pointed to the version 2 series being refitted first and this is evidenced by the decision to switch SQ26/5 over to version 1. Version 2 has the same number of J seats as ver 3 but drastically fewer Y seats, so from a yield equation, it makes complete sense to refit them first.

Something seems to have gone wrong with SKF and SKI though, which has thrown all these plans into disarray. I guess it's also possible that SKI may have needed some major work done on it and they decided to refit it at the same time, although given the refitting is contracted out, I'm not certain both could be done concurrently. Definitely I would say, the problems with SKF were unforeseen as they certainly wouldn't have planned the current A380 chaos heading into peak season.

[yuuka_miya]

Plot twist: they lease the HiFly A380, or if they're allowed to reactivate -SKD or -SKE to see them through the refits...

[9V-SML]

With 3 A380s down, the ramaining aircrafts will be kept flying to their max and still there will be some delays ates the 16 will not be able ro cover all existing routes fully.

How many of these 3 are out due to a refit? I’m starting to wonder if the tight allocation of aircraft will persist all through the refit programme since there are no new A380 deliveries.

[flyguy]

With 3 A380s down, the ramaining aircrafts will be kept flying to their max and still there will be some delays ates the 16 will not be able ro cover all existing routes fully.

[sbs2716g]

As of now (1.15pm SG time). All 16 SQ A380 are flying in the sky. Their resources is really stretch to the limit with 3 A380 out of service.

[sbs2716g]

Wonder whether SKF/SKI will be back in service soon? SQ seem to make a wrong decision to use version 1 on SQ26/25 from June. If SQ306/305 continue to use version 1, there will be an issue.

[Bytor]

I'd prefer to see the 2x 777 on the CDG route as I travel that fairly often as mentioned before, CDG just cannot handle that number of passengers. The 380 flights are routinely pretty full so I am sure there is the demand, especially in August when all the French go on vacation. That would free one up at least(!)

[SQ228]

The A380s are so very unpredictable at the moment. I don't think we expected to see a ver. 2 heading to DEL given the low seat count in Y but it's getting one almost daily at the moment. SKI hasn't flown for over a month now and SKF has been on the ground for over 3 days which must really be creating some pressure. SKT has now been out being refitted for 5 months and since rejoining service, SKS hasn't been replaced in the refit hangar as all 6 ver. 2 A380s in service are currently in the air except for SKN which didn't get used last night so is possibly headed to DEL this afternoon. Every ver. 3 is in the air at present.

Do we have any idea of what is going on with SKI? It seems to be really stretching the fleet to meet its commitments.

[sbs2716g]

9V-SKF is out of service since 20/6 when SKS went into service. So right now only 4 version 1 available to do JFK/MEL. Not sure whether SKF is undergoing maintainance or refit.
PEK n DEL are using VER 2 still.

Wonder whether SQ306/305 will still get the Ver 1 come July.