BA A380 coming to Cardiff airport

Just to let any plane spotters out there. British airways A380 will be flying into Cardiff airport on Monday 29th july at 0900am and leaving at 1400pm.

G-XLEA due to land at CWL at 08:40. Just a bit gutted that I'm on leave this week and will be too busy on Monday to go on it still had a titfull of them all the last few weeks! Will be good tho. Hope it can land ok!!!

Just to let any plane spotters out there. British airways A380 will be flying into Cardiff airport on Monday 29th july at 0900am and leaving at 1400pm.

Wrong messageboard, all the stamp and ticket stub collectors are on the other one

Thats bloody fantastic!! Cant wait for this jolly good old day... Up the train spotters!

Just to let any plane spotters out there. British airways A380 will be flying into Cardiff airport on Monday 29th july at 0900am and leaving at 1400pm.

Wrong messageboard, all the stamp and ticket stub collectors are on the other one

Not at all pal. I think its pretty cool the A380 is coming to Cardiff airport. Just goes to show that with the right investment from the Welsh government the next decade could really improve this struggling facility.
I know its not for commercial service only maintenance for BA,but it really shows the potential of the airport over the likes of Bristol.

Just to let any plane spotters out there. British airways A380 will be flying into Cardiff airport on Monday 29th july at 0900am and leaving at 1400pm.

Wrong messageboard, all the stamp and ticket stub collectors are on the other one

Not at all pal. I think its pretty cool the A380 is coming to Cardiff airport. Just goes to show that with the right investment from the Welsh government the next decade could really improve this struggling facility.
I know its not for commercial service only maintenance for BA,but it really shows the potential of the airport over the likes of Bristol.

Fair play, not interested in planes, but you are right the Welsh Goverment investing is brilliant mews and we will make massive improvements for Cardiff.
It's like when Sam first came amd invested, we caught up and passed Bristol City, the rest is history, let's hope this has the same ending

Thanks for letting us fellow plane spotters know ill def go to see it

Any South America players onboard

Just to let any plane spotters out there. British airways A380 will be flying into Cardiff airport on Monday 29th july at 0900am and leaving at 1400pm.

No bloody good if its empty!

Will Capoue be on there?

Will be on shift then so will have a cheeky look

So what's the significance of this plane?

It's big

We don't get them very often at Cardiff

So what's the significance of this plane?

Super big! Worlds biggest passenger plane!
Not many airports it can land on in uk

The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine jet airliner. It is the world's largest passenger airliner; many airports have upgraded their facilities to accommodate it because of its size. Initially named Airbus A3XX, Airbus designed the aircraft to challenge Boeing's monopoly in the large-aircraft market; the A380 made its first flight on 27 April 2005 and began commercial service in October 2007 with Singapore Airlines.

The A380's upper deck extends along the entire length of the fuselage, with a width equivalent to a wide-body aircraft. This gives the A380-800's cabin 478 square metres (5,145.1 sq ft) of floor space; with 49% more floor space than the next-largest airliner, the Boeing 747-8, the cabin provides seating for 525 people in a typical three-class configuration or up to 853 people in all-economy class configurations. The A380-800 has a design range of 15,700 kilometres (8,500 nmi; 9,800 mi), sufficient to fly from New York to Hong Kong, and a cruising speed of Mach 0.85 (about 900 km/h or 560 mph; 490 kn at cruising altitude) and costs £252 miliion.

f*cking hell it is a bit large

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Try reverse parking that fucker....

Just to let any plane spotters out there. British airways A380 will be flying into Cardiff airport on Monday 29th july at 0900am and leaving at 1400pm.

Wrong messageboard, all the stamp and ticket stub collectors are on the other one

Not at all pal. I think its pretty cool the A380 is coming to Cardiff airport. Just goes to show that with the right investment from the Welsh government the next decade could really improve this struggling facility.
I know its not for commercial service only maintenance for BA,but it really shows the potential of the airport over the likes of Bristol.

The airport might have potential, but try getting to it at busy times.
From Cardiff your options are either bottom road through Dinas or top road Culver (nightmare) and Wenvoe or five mile LANE.
From the M4 you can again suffer Culver and crawl single file along port road, or follow a school bus through Pendoylan.
From the west you can go single lane behind a tractor through Llandow or Wick. Complete crap infrastructure for an international airport.

Its not to bad, i live in Pentrebane and its never taken me longer than 30mins from time I leave my house to time I get inside the terminal and that includes a walk from the carpark. Most days can do it in 20.

Also a new bus service will be coming in every 20mins from city centre, not sure how popular it would be mind, i know id never get a bus to start my holiday off.

Defies logic how something that big can take off, never mind fly. Amazing fete of engineering, fairplay. Quite surprised cardiff airport runway can handle a plane as big as that.

Try reverse parking that fucker....

nah won;t get the wife to do this one!

Defies logic how something that big can take off, never mind fly. Amazing fete of engineering, fairplay. Quite surprised cardiff airport runway can handle a plane as big as that.

I think cardiff has the longest runway west of Manchester.

Defies logic how something that big can take off, never mind fly. Amazing fete of engineering, fairplay. Quite surprised cardiff airport runway can handle a plane as big as that.

I think cardiff has the longest runway west of Manchester.

I never new that mate. Learn something new everyday

The A380 wings were also built in Wales

Excellent website for anyone interested in aviation

http://www.flightradar24.com/52.44,-2.12/7

I wouldn't mind seeing the Antonov An-225. I've seen the An-124 which is cool but nothing on the 225.

Anyone seen an Airbus Beluga?

no but i just googled it now, f*cking mental looks like a dolphin or something!!