The Big Ark

Saw this 747 about to land at Schipol today. Singapore Airlines A380, the big monster, apparently is still not operating in Europe, until March at least. In fact the first customers of A380 are all coming from Asia - SQ, Emirates, MAS and Qantas will snatch the first 30 or so before any of the European airlines got theirs. Singapore Airlines got the first one in October last year and the second last month. The third will be delivered in March and will be used for the Singapore-London route. Altogether there will be 13 A380 delivered this year mainly to SQ and Emirates.

Just looking at the cost of ticket to go back home in the summer, the cheapest is about 1400 euros. RBA seems to be quite expensive, either via Frankfurt or Heathrow. There was some strong hints last year that RBA was going to use Garuda landing right and fly a regular service from BSB to Amsterdam via Jakarta. But that did not happen. So there goes another rumour. By the way the first private buyer of an A380 for personal use is for a Saudi Prince. You may ask, for what? Not sure when he is getting his plane. Some people are just too rich.