Citing a serious flight test incident, FAA slows Boeing 777X certification

Re:Citing a serious flight test incident, FAA slows Boeing 7... by sephamorr on Sunday June 27, 2021 @02:54PM (#27654170)

A380 is also quite a fuel-inefficient plane. It optimizes for passenger load per aircraft seemingly at the expense of everything else.

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Re:Citing a serious flight test incident, FAA slows Boeing 7... by LightG on Sunday June 27, 2021 @03:12PM (#27654330)

A shame the A380 is given a good kicking generally over stuff like this ... it's easily my favourite plane in terms of flight experience ... I actually started enjoying flying again and when booking holidays or work flights, filtering flights specifically to make sure I got on the A380.

Hope it's around for many years.

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Re:Citing a serious flight test incident, FAA slows Boeing 7... by petschge on Sunday June 27, 2021 @11:39PM (#27657878)

The A380 was a smooth ride, but oh so boring to fly on. But maybe I am weird for liking to fly on tiny things like ERJ135. In a A380 it's just 8 hours of noisy bus ride with way to many people.

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Re:Citing a serious flight test incident, FAA slows Boeing 7... by LightG on Monday June 28, 2021 @12:21PM (#27663863)

ERJ135, sounds good for maybe a short flight! ...

8 hours of noisy bus ride? Weird, I never found the A380 like that and it's not as if I was up front or anything. Engine noice was minimal, fairly comfortable. Maybe just lucky.

Having said that, I recall a distinct difference between airliners. Qantas A380 wasn't as nice in comparison to the Emirates.

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