Nice pics, hope the test are ok and we will see this bird very soon in the european skies and hope it will get to brussels also ... that would be a site ....
Why did Airbus test it's A380 in Colombia? Ok, I understand the range was good but to my knowledge none of the A380 customers are from Latin America or even Iberia who operates many flights to it's former colonies.
Are there other airlines planning to fly the A380 to Latin America?
I though many airports had to make some change to accomodate the A380 (runway length and width, boarding gates, etc.)
It was for high altitude+ hot temperature testing, Medellin runway is 45 meters large, so it can handle the A380, the airports have to make modifications for the taxiways and the gates, they do not really need to make modifications for the runways.
Hope this helps.
I think that the reason of flying the aircraft to Colombia was exclusively for testing, because there is no south american airline really interested in a big plane like the A380.
Well, with South America heading towards Socialism and in general anti-Americanism, Airbus will have an easier time selling down there than Boeing. That's not a political statement, just an observation.
By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly an airplane?
