A380 Lands in Fiji due to medical

[Rhys Xanthis]

I like it!

The light on the tail makes for an interesting contrast

[Craig Lindsay]

Would the A380 fully loaded being able to take off from nadi.Is there runway long enough.
Would of been good news in seattle
Boeings graceful lady of the skies the 747 saves stranded passengers from a grounded Airbus A380 flight.

[Jethro H]

Nadi's main runway is almost 11000 feet!

[Bill S]

Originally Posted by Craig Lindsay

Would the A380 fully loaded being able to take off from nadi.Is there runway long enough.
Would of been good news in seattle
Boeings graceful lady of the skies the 747 saves stranded passengers from a grounded Airbus A380 flight.

I used to fly for Air Pacific, flying the 747-200's and we couldn't quite get out of there at max weight with the temperatures you typically see there.
You also have to use runway 20 for takeoff, 02 takes you right into the mountains.
I'm not sure how the 380 would go but I suspect it couldn't get out of a ~3300 metre runway at max weight. But since it was going to Sydney or Melbourne, it wouldn't need a lot of fuel and would be pretty light anyway.

[Owen H]

In terms of a full passenger load, the aircraft would get out of there no problems I'd imagine! (As long as the wind was light, or a southerly). Don't need a lot of fuel to go Nadi to Aus. The A380, although large, uses relatively little runway compared to some other aircraft.

[Mick B]

And the 380 the other night only had a handful of crew and enough gas to get to Melbourne. Posed no problem at all.

If a diversion happens again when operating LAX-SYD/MEL (and it will happen!) then I'd say that even with a full load of pax and enough gas to continue onto Australia it would do it pretty easily.