TheFiend

Well some people must want to fly them..... passenger numbers passed them million mark a long time ago....

Why is that? You seem to forget that the A320 series is a moneymaker for Airbus.... Also, the A380 program is expected to start making a profit around 2014/2015. And congrats to Airbus for securing another 12 orders for the A380. Incidentally airlines that are sing the A380 have all seen an increase in passenger numbers whilst their competitors have seen a decrease. Passengers want to fly A380. And I certainly don't complain my taxes have gone to help Airbus develop some great aircraft.

The Boeing fanboys seem to have gone quiet...... wonder why? It looks like the 320NEO has blown away the 737NG this year!!!

Search for it and you can find plenty of free WiFi. The sad thing is companies think they can make money from providing WiFi. If free WiFi isn't available I certainly won't pay to use it. I'd rather do without!!!

Free Wi-Fi should be offered at all airports!!!

Well done to Airbus for repairing the damage and returning F-WWDD to the Airshow. They're are rumours of a new A380 order being announced during the show, if they can find the time to fit the announcement in with all the A320NEO orders that are being announced....

Nice to see the Korean Air A380 being used for flying displays!

I don't claim to be knowledgeable about the industry, I just have an interest in air travel.

Do they? So why were orders getting announced in the weeks leading up to Paris? What about the recent Thai Airways and Cebu orders?

And taking off from Manchester... Etihad has 777-300ERs flying the Manchester route, but since Emirates went 3x daily the load factors on the Etihad flights have dropped dramatically so they would be better off using A330's again on that route. On my recent trip both the flight out and the flight in were less than 50% full.

So your blaming poor panel fit on the maintenance providers.... suprise, suprise!!! One of the ones I flew on was A6-ETF, only delivered 18 months ago. It exhibited the same ill fitting panels as the others I flew on ETB,ETD and ETE. The panels were not the same shape as the roof profile, hence the poor panel fit. It was nothing to do with been badly fitted by a maintenance fitter.

In denial...... NOT!!! I've never claimed that the Trent engine hasn't suffered from faults or failures but all you Boeing fan-boys fail to acknowledge the failures of GE, P&W and EA engines.... Want to talk about bad design and construction.... On my last trip I flew of 4 out of the 7 Etihad 777-300ERs in service and they all suffered from badly fitted interior panels where the shape of the panels failed to match the shape of the cabin.

Wrong.... there are quite a number of Trent engines in service, having been available since the mid 90's on the A330, A340 and also the 777.

The Trent engine isn't a disaster...... it is not the only engine to have suffered failures...

News article taken from flightglobal Lets hope Airbus don't suffer the problems with the A350 that have affected the 7LATE7!!!

There's a lot shite that comes out of Hollywood, never gets a cinema release and just goes straight to video. OK "P" never made it to global release, but that fact doesn't make it a bad film. Also many Thai films never get released outside of Thailand.

Thailand has a thriving movie industry, sadly very few films get released globally. Its a shame because there are quite a few good Thai films. Also very few Thai movies get released on DVD with English subtitles. There are plenty of Thai films available on torrent sites... you just need to look for them.

Yesterday morning the Etihad flight landed at Manchester 30 minutes early and no gate was available.... so we we parked on one of the taxi-ways for 20 minutes until one was available.... Immigration only had 5 desks open so getting through immigration was slow, but luckily nobody was on customs so we waltzed through with my load of cheap baccy from Bangkok!!!

Just landed back this morning with Etihad and I'm sad to say but the return trip wasn't an improvement on the outward trip.... personally I think the on-board experience is sadly not as good as Emirates..... And I definitely recommend flying A380 compared to the 777-300ER, the 777 feels a lot more claustrophobic in the high density configuration that both Emirates and Etihad use.

Emirates 35.7%??? Personally I've had 100% success rate with them for reward flights..... even on the days that I wanted to fly!!!

Both Qatar and Emirates are scheduled to depart after the Etihad flight (35 and 15 minutes later). From my seat I could see the Qatar plane loading at the gate and then been pushed back and then taxing out for take-off.

Here on the BBC website.

Entered it for fun as I know bugger all about football, so been quite pleased to not finish last!!!

Well, whilst we were waiting after being pushed back off the gate, I saw the Qatar and a few other terminal 2 flights getting pushed back off the gates and taxing out for take off.... Also the Emirates flight had also left before we did..

I got my flight for £471 and it was significantly cheaper than Emirates for the dates I booked. Emirates must be hurting Etihad with the morning flight. My Etihad flight had loads of empty seats.