A380 - Master Thread

[FN-GM]

They are preparing it for the return to lessor. I should imagine if they fail to return it in the agreed conditions the penalties will be high.

[flyguy]

Interestingly SIA quietly parked SKA since june and have not flown it although the expected lease expires only in October, which means SIA just parked SKA for 4 months. This is quite costly as SIA should still be paying the montly lease fo the aircraft till the lease officially expires in October and the monthly lease runs into millions of dollars per month. Can SIA afford to do that and let it sit idle?

[FN-GM]

Not sure as yet as Hi Fly have not mentioned anything or confirmed about where its 2 A380s are coming from and Dr Peters group which owns the first 5 of SIA's A380 as of even June have mentioned it is still undecided to part out SKA as yet. If Hi Fly have leased SKA, then the decision nd paperwork would have been done and Dr Peters would have announced it.

There is time yet, its is still a rumour and they won't announce anything until its all firmed up.

[flyguy]

Not sure as yet as Hi Fly have not mentioned anything or confirmed about where its 2 A380s are coming from and Dr Peters group which owns the first 5 of SIA's A380 as of even June have mentioned it is still undecided to part out SKA as yet. If Hi Fly have leased SKA, then the decision nd paperwork would have been done and Dr Peters would have announced it.

[CarbonMan]

Hi Fly to take the SKA?

https://seekingalpha.com/article/410...-a380-customer

[FN-GM]

It clearly states that the delivery can still take place this year. So 14 out of 15 will be retrofitted? Is it because the 15th one is on lease and getting returned like SKA-SKE?

They have done the maths wrong. The article reads like they have 20 A380s but they only every had 19

A fifth early SIA A380, MSN 51, is owned by Hannover Leasing. Its lease is due to expire on 31 August 2020.

Of its remaining 15 A380s,

[SQfanatic]

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...t-a380-440510/

It clearly states that the delivery can still take place this year. So 14 out of 15 will be retrofitted? Is it because the 15th one is on lease and getting returned like SKA-SKE?

[cscs1956]

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...t-a380-440510/

[flyguy]

18 because Kilo-Alpha has been retired, taking it down from 19 in the fleet, to 18.

Yes SIA have parked 9V-SKA since June this year ahead of its return to its lessor in Octiber. Hence only 18 A380s in service until the new ones arrives.

[SQfanatic]

Still intrigued by the different port and starboard side window layouts of the upper deck first class on the new birds.
In case the retrofit the current planes, do they also change the window layout?

If they did change the 77W window layout while retrofitting, that can still hold for the A380.

As far as the poster posting SKU and SKV, looks nice and yes, it looks ready, but as far as the cabin fittings that's a possibility, but again, these two birds can be delivered well before 2018 begins. Please keep posted if anything changes.

[76er]

Still intrigued by the different port and starboard side window layouts of the upper deck first class on the new birds.
In case the retrofit the current planes, do they also change the window layout?

[9V-SPL]

Wow, so both 9V-SKU and 9V-SKV are out and painted? Sweet!

[SQKevin]

I had thought the first registration would be SKU, allocating SK+UVWYZ in series to the 5 new orders. Is it just the case that SKV will be the first registration ready before SKU or do we know if SKU has been skipped? I'd doubt we would every see an SKX, so if no SKU, the last one will end up completely on its own with S*A.

There is SKU. MSN 243, Test registration: F-WWAQ. She's currently undergoing cabin fitting in Hamburg.


A380 Singapore Airlines 9V-SKU by Tobias Gudat, auf Flickr

http://a380.boards.net/thread/1581/a...#ixzz4pvBif91C

[SQ228]

I had thought the first registration would be SKU, allocating SK+UVWYZ in series to the 5 new orders. Is it just the case that SKV will be the first registration ready before SKU or do we know if SKU has been skipped? I'd doubt we would every see an SKX, so if no SKU, the last one will end up completely on its own with S*A.

[Spaniard]

Perhaps that's something with internal fittings?

Was wondering the same but the production list says "On order, outfitted in XFW" which seems to suggest cabin has been installed?