We compare the Airbus A380 vs the Boeing B787 Dreamliner, by Vijay Verghese, and more from Smart Travel Asia and Dancing Wolf Media. PROMOTIONAL AND I. D. MODEL. USAF B1. Rockwell International B1 Division. Its a price that cant be met by many. Three hours in the sky will set you back 650 on an Emirates Airlines A380 super jumbo from Bangkok to Hong Kong so it makes. The classic US stereotype of attempted Iranian ideological indoctrination via chants of Death to America and such has been old hat for quite some time. As noted. Airbus vs Boeing we compare the A3. B7. 87 Dreamliner and the newer A3. AIRCRAFT REVIEWIs small beautiful Or big The A3. B7. Dreamliner debate. The B7. 87 stretch version is in the works as the A3. Dreamliner killer arrives and Chinas ARJ2. Meanwhile is SIA cuting back on the A3. We just realized its the 20th anniversary of Smash Mouths Walkin on the Sun, a song about not being a normie or giving into ephemeral fads like soul. Al Baker declined to comment on how much the airline paid for the planes, but said the list price for an A380 is 380 million. The newly launched aircraft will. Forget about rain delays or missing flight crews. Climate change means the real problem for aviation will be heat waves. The A380 faces an uncertain future, despite some successes, and the decision about moving forward with an A380neo will be a difficult one for Airbus. Vijay Verghese. SEE ALSOFirst Class Seat Survey Business Class Seat Survey Economy Class Seat Survey Small Airlines Guide Frequent Flier Programs Business Class Seats Review. Vietnam Airlines A3. September, 2. 01. ONE is voluptuous and voluminous, combining the fulsome curves of a 6. Playboy model with the polish and poise of a portly dowager. Critics describe her as a dinosaur. The other is sleek, pretty, and quick, yet capable of long outings. She was late to the ball and her antagonists deride her as incontrovertibly plastic. Both are modern, high strung, and elegant in their own way. They have charmed, alarmed, been grounded, and hounded. Whom would you pick For all intents it could be a face off between the alluring bloom of Christina Hendricks of Mad Men fame and the diminutive but seductive appeal of dark eyed Natalie Portman. On the surface, the Airbus vs Boeing spat may appear rather more prosaic, yet the story of this transatlantic argle bargle careening from the incredible to the insane has all the ingredients of a rich period drama with bruised suitors, stiff upper lips, twists in the tale and the ever present frisson of dark gossip surrounding wing cracks, battery smoke and engine fires. So who will be standing at the final bell Airbus Or Boeing More specifically, the mammoth fly by wire A3. B7. 87 Dreamliner Much has been written about the transatlantic A3. B7. 87 spat and now the Dreamliner killer A3. Finnair, Vietnam Airlines, Cathay Pacific, THAI Airways International with a Bangkok Melbourne route from late October 2. Brazils TAM. Send us your Feedback Letter to the Editor. Cathay Pacific has an HK1. A3. 50s 2. 2 A3. A3. The first 1. 2 aircraft arrived in 2. CX A3. 50 launched 1 June 2. HK Manila and HK Taipei routes. Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh followed 1 July 2. HK London Gatwick on 1 September 2. Long haul routes follow thereafter on the 2. Cathays Next. Gen Airbus A3. Wi. Fi connectivity shortly over Mainland China too at just under US2. The aircraft also serves up high definition in flight touch screen television. Cathay Pacific A3. Wi. Fi. New seats are featured in all classes. Expect mood lighting, controlled humidity and cabin pressure set at a comfortable 6,0. A shortage of trained pilots with the airline locking horns with the union over a long running dispute means the introduction of long haul flights were somewhat delayed. The aircraft offers pleasant airy interiors with roomy cabins, raised luggage bins, and smart toilets. Cathays A3. 50 9. Vietnam Airlines operates a three class configuration on its A3. Vietnam Airlines is the second operator to fly this new aircraft, after Qatar Airways. Its maiden Hanoi Paris flight took off on 3. September, 2. 01. In September 2. 01. SIA an airline that believes in a young and efficient fleet announced that it was not renewing the lease on one of its five rented A3. The hugely delayed rollout of the Airbus A3. September, 2. 00. Lancer Patch For Windows 7. Singapore Airlines inaugural flight from Singapore to Sydney, a charity event that raised US1. Medecins Sans Frontires and two childrens hospitals, proving at once that airlines can have heart and that the aircraft, while immense, was no gas guzzler, with 2. B7. 47 4. 00 now phased out. Suprising some, SIA an airline that believes in a young and efficient fleet announced in September 2. October lease on one of its five leased A3. The airline has 1. A3. 80s currently. This is may be a taste of things to come as efficiences are sought and routes are rationalised for this enormous aircraft that cannot afford to fly light. Five more behemoths are on order with Airbus and the first of these arrives in Singapore second half 2. Send us your Feedback Letter to the Editor. By end 2. 01. 4, Airbus had 1. A3. 80. In May 2. SIA also became the first airline to commit to a 3. Dreamliner, the Boeing 7. X expected to roll out 2. US1. 7 billion order that includes thirty A3. Airbus. THAI A3. 80 delivery, 2. Sep, 2. 01. 2The Boeing 7. Dreamliner was delivered to the first recipient, a grateful and extraordinarily patient All Nippon Airways ANA, on 2. September, 2. 01. Dreamliners roll off the assembly line in 2. But the drama had only just begun. On 9 January, 2. 01. Japan Airlines Dreamliner was grounded at Bostons Logan International Airport after a malfunctioning battery in the aircrafts ancillary power system caught fire. Smoke had been discovered in the rear of the cabin. Another 7. 87 sprung a fuel leak. On 1. 6 January, 2. ANA B7. 87 was diverted to Japans Takamatsu Airport and made an emergency landing with no reported passenger injuries after a cockpit smoke alarm went off. Shortly after, both ANA the largest Dreamliner operator at the time with 1. JAL had grounded their B7. They were not alone. Worried about electrical fires and overheating batteries the B7. Federal Aviation Authority FAA speedily grounded the planes in USA. Also stopping flights were the European Aviation Safety Agency, Qatar Airways, LAN Chile, Air India, Ethiopian Airlines and the Polish LOT. Air India offered its Dreamliner up for sale leaseback, not unusual in the airline world. At one stroke, the 5. Japanese lithium ion battery manufacturer, GS Yuasa Corporation. The batteries have been cause for concern from the inception. United replaced three batteries from September to December 2. ANA had replaced 1. May to December, prompting Boeing chief executive James Mc. Nerney Jr to comment that the battery replacement was at a slightly higher rate than expected. While Boeings battery fix for the B7. April, 2. 01. 3 with an ANA Dreamliner test flight on Sunday 2. April, 2. 01. 3 with ANA chief Shinichiro Ito and Ray Conner, Boeing President and CEO of the commercial division onboard, Ethiopian Airlines was the first back in the air with a B7. April from Addis Ababa to Nairobi. ANA was back with commercial B7. May, 2. 01. 3 and other airlines followed suit. Air India had its Dreamliners in the air mid May. Qatar A3. 50 arrived mid December 2. Airbus has announced meanwhile that it will not use lithium ion batteries, preferring traditional nickel cadmium power on the A3. Airbus and Europes answer to the lightweight B7. The new generation composite material Dreamliner killer from Airbus, the twin engine A3. XWB, is a mid size long range aircraft that carries anywhere from 2. Deliveries started late 2. Qatar had its first service airborne by January 2. Vietnam Airlines and Finnair had A3. Launch customer Qatar was kept waiting for a long while as the original launch target was 2. The aircraft took to the skies from Toulouse on a maiden test flight on 1. June, 2. 01. 3 fitted with its giant low carbon emission custom designed Rolls Royce Trent XWB engines. This is the engine of choice for the 2. A3. 50 8. 00, the 3. A3. 50 1. 00. 0 and the ultra long haul A3. R. By mid June 2. A3. 50 had 6. 13 firm orders in the bag and more have followed. The Qatar purchase was followed by a massive breakthrough in Japan October 2. Japan Airlines deal worth over US9bn for 3. Airbus A3. 50 aircraft. Thus far JAL has been a staunch Boeing customer. The arrival of the A3. B7. 87 vs A3. 50 argument.