SQ's A380 Inaugural Flight Diverted to Nagoya!

[Michael Chai 0]

Sinapore A380

 

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[Simon 3]

SKA - Sydney

SKB - Heatrow

SKC - Tokyo

SKD - Beijing, just cater for olympic?

[Nick C 0]

SKA - Sydney

SKB - Heatrow

SKC - Tokyo

SKD - Beijing, just cater for olympic?

 

I feel that the pairing of the aircraft with in the order of the routes is purely coincidental with the rotation of the aircraft.

 

SKE should be in service by July allowing heavy MX with the rotation of aircraft. SKF will most likely come just before the Olympics thereby allowing a 4th route to be served once the A380 Olympics flights stop.

[Andi C 0]

Singapore Air's A380 Flight to Tokyo Diverted on Bad Weather

 

By Chan Sue Ling

 

May 20 (Bloomberg) -- Singapore Airlines Ltd., the only operator of the Airbus SAS A380, diverted the plane's inaugural flight to Tokyo due to bad weather.

 

The flight was diverted to Nagoya, airline spokesman Stephen Forshaw said in an e-mail reply to Bloomberg queries.

 

``A safe landing could not be completed at Narita, and after the pilot was advised by air traffic control of strong winds and low-level wind shear, the decision was made to divert to Nagoya for fuel, and to await clearing of conditions at Narita,'' Forshaw said.

Source: Bloomberg News

[Yusoff 1]

aiyoo.. kesian.. Then, all the media etc would have to 'run' to Nagoya to catch it?

[Denny Yen 0]

Realtime weather report at RJAA/NRT

 

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/amedas_h/today-451...mp;areaCode=000

Time Temperature© Precipitation(mm) Wind Direction Wind(m/s)

1 17.9 1.0 SSE 7

2 17.8 4.5 SSE 7

3 17.6 1.5 SE 5

4 18.1 3.0 SE 8

5 18.3 7.5 SE 9

6 18.3 11.0 SE 12

7 18.3 10.5 SSE 13

8 18.7 3.0 SSE 15

9 19.3 4.0 SSE 14

10 21.6 0.5 S 12

11 22.5 0.0 S 11

12 22.1 0.0 SSW 7

13 21.6 0.0 SW 6

14 22.5 0.0 W 3

 

Realtime weather report at RJGG/NGO

 

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/amedas_h/today-512...mp;areaCode=000

Time Temperature© Precipitation(mm) Wind Direction Wind(m/s)

1 17.8 1.5 ESE 9

2 17.9 4.5 ESE 10

3 17.5 7.5 ENE 8

4 16.9 6.5 NNE 6

5 16.9 6.0 N 10

6 17.4 1.0 NW 12

7 18.3 0.0 NW 7

8 19.3 0.0 WSW 3

9 20.1 0.0 NNE 5

10 20.3 0.0 NNW 10

11 19.4 0.0 NNW 12

12 19.1 0.0 NW 11

13 20.2 0.0 NNW 9

14 20.6 0.0 NW 12

[Ignatius 4]

Wow... that would be nice as pax hehe.. get to stay longer in the dugong..

[Denny Yen 0]

Here it is in NRT/RJAA, at noon today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taken at 9:09 local time in NGO/RJGG

 

Edited May 20, 2008 by Denny Yen

[Andi C 0]

How ironic is that?

 

So in history, 1st commercial A380 flight (or 1st commercial A380 landing rather) to Japan landed @ Nagoya's Chubu Centrair.

 

I felt sorry for NRT/RJAA after all the hype & 'hoopla', this historical event/title 'snatched' away & it happened on their 30th anniversary!!

[S V Choong 4]

Fortunately it didn't have to land at another country - ie. Korea or China.

[Edwin P K 0]

Wow... that would be nice as pax hehe.. get to stay longer in the dugong..

 

Hehe...actually if you get stuck on an airplane...it can be really boring...

 

The A380 at first is nice, but after a while...it can be really plain!

[Andi C 0]

Wonder if it was given water canon salute in Nagoya

[Chee Yong 0]

Thanks for the full coverage over Ngoya.

[Andi C 0]

Video coverage from Japanese media.

Supposed to be a preview ceremony but was cancelled. And one spotter came all the way from Hiroshima.

 

http://www.fnn-news.com/news/headlines/art...NN00133125.html

 

So sad...

[Pieter C. 5]

I felt sorry for NRT/RJAA after all the hype & 'hoopla', this historical event/title 'snatched' away & it happened on their 30th anniversary!!

 

Better safe than sorry...