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The SIA A380 lands on the Continent
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From the title, I thought there must have been some sort of diversion - when did London move onto the Continent?
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And I thought Australia was a continent? Oh no, we're an Island... ummmm :-)
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Well, I probably should have had a good view of SQ308 arriving the other day in canary Wharf Imissed it, so watched BBC News 24 at 9pm nothing for the next hour, and I think they only ended up having a small piece at some point during the 10pm news. I know there was market turmoil etc going on, but a shame there was not the anticipation as with the first flight. I got the best pics of it from The Age website. Anyway, hopefully I wil see it soon
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I was looking at the Singapore Airlines timetable this morning and if you want to fly on the A380 from Sydney to London you have almost a 10 hour stop over in Singapore.
SQ220 Departs Sydney at 0850 and Arrives in Singapore at 1345 SQ322 Departs Sinapore at 2320 and Arrives in LHR at 0525 +1 Day You can also depart Sydney on SQ232 at 1245 and still easily make SQ322 at 2320 (you arrive in Singapore at 1740). On the return from London to Sydney you can take SQ319/SQ221 on the A380 with a 5 hour stopover in Singapore. This is not ideal, and I assume it is because they only have the two A380s (or did I miss the third arrival).
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The third one is about to depart Sydney as I type. 9V-SKC has pushed back off Bay 57 and will taxi soon for a 16R departure.
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From 2 May, the A380 flight will be SQ 222 instead of SQ 220, arriving in Singapore at 21:40. That will have a much better connection to the SIN-LHR flight.
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SYD-SIN SQ222 15:25/21:40 SIN-LHR SQ322 23:30/05:55+1 LHR-SIN SQ317 11:55/07:45+1 SIN-SYD SQ221 20:35/05:55+1 My logic could be out, but it looks like all three aircraft will have to be flying full round trips between Sydney and London via Singapore, repeating the cycle every 72 hours, with that 13 hour layover in Singapore while eastbound being the longest time they'll have on the ground for a maintenance window if required. Using UTC times, it looks like the mission for each aircraft would have to be: Dep SIN 12:35 Arr SYD 19:55 Dep SYD 05:25+1 Arr SIN 13:40+1 Dep SIN 15:30+1 Arr LHR 04:55+2 Dep LHR 10:55+2 Arr SIN 23:45+2 |
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Yep you must have missed the arrival of the 3rd a/c. It is this a/c that makes London flights possible.
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