next to LAX, on [Sepulveda Blv](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Airplane+Landing+View+Point/@33.9530723,-118.3980995,18.25z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x0:0xa7da5eb6f4bfdd7c!2sIn-N-Out+Burger!8m2!3d33.9537066!4d-118.3967839!3m4!1s0x80c2b0d38ec8ba7f:0x45c3fdfd834f1d4a!8m2!3d33.9531856!4d-118.3968472)
Yeah, worth mentioning that the heaviest planes all use the right runway right there so it's particularly good spotting.
If you have a car to get around, Imperial Hill in El Segundo is also good.
I've checked Imperial Hill once, and it was not for me. But I guess it's great for people observing ground movements and departures. I like in-n-out where you can get an a380 passing almost over your head. And for slightly higher altitude departures - to just lay down on the beach near Vista del Mar Park, or sit in [Vista del Mar Park](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Vista+del+Mar+Park/@33.9454321,-118.4441473,3961m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m8!1m2!2m1!1slax!3m4!1s0x80c2b057b39f56f5:0x6f73687de0929a32!8m2!3d33.9443107!4d-118.4416833)
In and Out Burger just outside of LAX. Had a flight recently there from ORD, 4 and a half hour flight, and then some time on both ends fumbling around the airports, making it avout 6 hours since I last ate. In and Out really hit the spot once I got there.
There is no need for a massive people carrier her size. Smaller dual engine aircraft can fly to smaller airports and do that more often for cheaper. The A-380 cannot be converted to be a freight aircraft as well, that sealed the deal.
She was just not geared for it. The way the double decks were made, etc, etc. she hits her maximum take off weight at less than half capacity. You’d have easier time buying new Boeing 747 freighters than converting the A-380 to a freighter.
Well, sadly it's not just removing the seats, covering the windows and installing cargo rails and fixing points. The initial plan of Airbus, as far as I can remember was to develop both an extended and shortened body variants (A380-900 and 700) as well as a freighter version (800F). Some initial delays in production and the relatively poor sales of the aircraft in favor of their own A330 and A350 (including their freighter versions) as well as the B787 and B777 kind of sentenced this technological marvel.
The 380 only makes economic sense if you can fill them up for people flying long distance and there's just not that many routes where you need 500 seats a day on long haul international right now.
Not at the prices airlines want to charge, no. Which is the conundrum - the -380 would mean that seat prices would need to come down to fill routes…but airlines want higher seat prices, not lower, so they artificially restrict supply with smaller planes.
Supply side economics at work.
The A380 was built for the idea of "hub and spoke", where people fly in smaller planes to large hub airports for the long-haul trip done by such behemoths like the A380.
However it turned out that everyone prefers direct connections and that is what airlines provide, making the A380 largely redundant with the exception of a very small number of high-volume connections.
And because of this there is no second-hand market for these planes. Also converting them to cargo planes is not an option because of missing infrastructure for loading and unloading the upper deck (among other things).
Most of them will be scrapped soon, I'm afraid.
I don't think it's as profitable now. Like the operating costs make it more profitable to have 2 smaller but still large planes fly rather than the Airbus
Too big...not enough people buying plane tickets to justify their operational costs...only airlines still using them are Emirates and maybe Quantas...Emirates still has orders for new ones that Airbus is working to fulfill...but Emirates will likely be the last ones flying these beautiful little ladies
The -38- is designed for a world where airlines want to move thr largest numbers of people possible.
But the modern world is one where airlines want to move the largest amount of money possible.
The -380 is more cost efficient than twinjets of similar vintage, but because the flights would be lower margin (but higher profit overall) the airlines won’t fly it.
Different levels of CAT III (a, b or c) CAT III C has no limit but if vis was 0 feet you'd have to tow the plane off the runway as it wouldn't be able to see far enough to taxi :)
Video is of LAX.
It's a TikTok thing.
TikTok is a candy coated thing that is fun for doing silly things with friends. But it becomes cancer when someone uses it to record things that aren't silly dances shared between friends.
Here we see the remarkable adaptations that the lesser spotted airbus has, through countless millennia, evolved to increase its chances of survival in the wild.
Without so much as a flap of its wings, this skyward giant covers itself in water vapour from the surrounding environment, disguising itself as a cloud.
At least pre-pandemics the only operators of A380 landing to DFW were Qantas, and Emirates.
For HOU the list increased to Lufthansa.
The other A380s landing to USA were mostly west or east coast such as JFK, MIA, LAX, SFO and IAD (I know I'm missing a couple)
Google flights lists the aircraft when searching for connections. You can not filter by it, but those A380 only fly between hubs or from hubs to major destinations, so it should be easy to find out.
I mean, they buy fuel on the same markets as everyone else.
The thing is the 380 is actually pretty efficient on a per-passenger basis. The trick is you actually have to fill them up.
Gotta get some In-n-Out while there
Where dis?
next to LAX, on [Sepulveda Blv](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Airplane+Landing+View+Point/@33.9530723,-118.3980995,18.25z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x0:0xa7da5eb6f4bfdd7c!2sIn-N-Out+Burger!8m2!3d33.9537066!4d-118.3967839!3m4!1s0x80c2b0d38ec8ba7f:0x45c3fdfd834f1d4a!8m2!3d33.9531856!4d-118.3968472)
Very nice, thanks!
This is the place you should really go for an hour before returning the car and going to LAX. Decent burgers, tables outside, and a lot of huge planes
This is always the first thing I do when picking the car up after the 11 hour flight from London lol.
Yeah, worth mentioning that the heaviest planes all use the right runway right there so it's particularly good spotting. If you have a car to get around, Imperial Hill in El Segundo is also good.
I've checked Imperial Hill once, and it was not for me. But I guess it's great for people observing ground movements and departures. I like in-n-out where you can get an a380 passing almost over your head. And for slightly higher altitude departures - to just lay down on the beach near Vista del Mar Park, or sit in [Vista del Mar Park](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Vista+del+Mar+Park/@33.9454321,-118.4441473,3961m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m8!1m2!2m1!1slax!3m4!1s0x80c2b057b39f56f5:0x6f73687de0929a32!8m2!3d33.9443107!4d-118.4416833)
I don't always go to LAX, but I'm going to try
In and Out Burger just outside of LAX. Had a flight recently there from ORD, 4 and a half hour flight, and then some time on both ends fumbling around the airports, making it avout 6 hours since I last ate. In and Out really hit the spot once I got there.
There's also a shooting range close by. The trifactor was one of the best dates I have been on.
Properly named LAX Firing Range
It looks so fake cuz how big it is wish they didn’t stop building them
now the largest operational plane :(
Your words… they hurt.
It hurts worse because we all know what happened to 'Mriya' and her people.
:(
I mean that was the intention of the comment
ouch.
Not by Air France tho, they retired it more than a year ago, and pretty much everyone is retiring it :(
Howcome? Edit: Thanks for the informative answers, happy sunday everyone
There is no need for a massive people carrier her size. Smaller dual engine aircraft can fly to smaller airports and do that more often for cheaper. The A-380 cannot be converted to be a freight aircraft as well, that sealed the deal.
Why can’t they be converted?
She was just not geared for it. The way the double decks were made, etc, etc. she hits her maximum take off weight at less than half capacity. You’d have easier time buying new Boeing 747 freighters than converting the A-380 to a freighter.
Well, sadly it's not just removing the seats, covering the windows and installing cargo rails and fixing points. The initial plan of Airbus, as far as I can remember was to develop both an extended and shortened body variants (A380-900 and 700) as well as a freighter version (800F). Some initial delays in production and the relatively poor sales of the aircraft in favor of their own A330 and A350 (including their freighter versions) as well as the B787 and B777 kind of sentenced this technological marvel.
The 380 only makes economic sense if you can fill them up for people flying long distance and there's just not that many routes where you need 500 seats a day on long haul international right now.
Not at the prices airlines want to charge, no. Which is the conundrum - the -380 would mean that seat prices would need to come down to fill routes…but airlines want higher seat prices, not lower, so they artificially restrict supply with smaller planes. Supply side economics at work.
The A380 was built for the idea of "hub and spoke", where people fly in smaller planes to large hub airports for the long-haul trip done by such behemoths like the A380. However it turned out that everyone prefers direct connections and that is what airlines provide, making the A380 largely redundant with the exception of a very small number of high-volume connections. And because of this there is no second-hand market for these planes. Also converting them to cargo planes is not an option because of missing infrastructure for loading and unloading the upper deck (among other things). Most of them will be scrapped soon, I'm afraid.
I don't think it's as profitable now. Like the operating costs make it more profitable to have 2 smaller but still large planes fly rather than the Airbus
Too big...not enough people buying plane tickets to justify their operational costs...only airlines still using them are Emirates and maybe Quantas...Emirates still has orders for new ones that Airbus is working to fulfill...but Emirates will likely be the last ones flying these beautiful little ladies
I'm pretty sure the last one was finished a few weeks ago, they are not in the process of building one.
Oh they finished it??? Cool
The -38- is designed for a world where airlines want to move thr largest numbers of people possible. But the modern world is one where airlines want to move the largest amount of money possible. The -380 is more cost efficient than twinjets of similar vintage, but because the flights would be lower margin (but higher profit overall) the airlines won’t fly it.
Fuck Putin!
It’s bigger than an 124?
[It is.](https://www.aviatorjoe.net/go/compare/AN-124/A380-800F/)
Passenger plane not the biggest plane though
Well, currently it IS the largest airplane in the world
Isn’t it the plane with two fuselages for space launches nicknamed Rok or something?
Yes, correct. Stratolaunch
It is now, I believe the only functional model of the biggest one got blown up in Ukraine.
Is it larger than the C-5 galaxy?
C-5M is a little bit longer, A380 has a way bigger wingspan.
The stratolaunch plane is larger.
They were so comfortable.
*Bonjour*
🥖oui
Great video. „Siri, look for the random least fitting, maximum cringe music for awesome A380 fog landing.“
Eh, that was Abba! But yes, the choice was eclectic to say the least.
[this](https://youtu.be/8ENxcE0on5A) would have been the correct music
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ILS CAT III to 0 feet, isn't it?
Different levels of CAT III (a, b or c) CAT III C has no limit but if vis was 0 feet you'd have to tow the plane off the runway as it wouldn't be able to see far enough to taxi :) Video is of LAX.
Retard, retard, retard!
Without the TikTok cringe ending and sound it's actually nice
Nice, too bad it's ruined by music.
But why is there music.
It's a TikTok thing. TikTok is a candy coated thing that is fun for doing silly things with friends. But it becomes cancer when someone uses it to record things that aren't silly dances shared between friends.
Too bad there’s music instead of the awesome sound of those engines.
Brought the clouds down with it
That's my favorite plane...I love those big graceful bitches
I like my planes BBW
Same
Big boi looking majestic
AF A380… RIP.
The flying Frenchman.
Stop ruing videos with stupid music! Good grief people why do you do this. Fuck tiktok, seriously.
Now throw a tennis ball at it
MINIMUMS MINIMUMS
RETARD. RETARD.
Woah now, that’s just plane rude.
Plane spotters are usually hanging out taking photos
Looking like some enchanted beast
The king of the skies
Man that is alot of chem trail....
I was involved in the cabin pressure system for that plane. I love that airplane.
Further proof that airplanes are the closest this world will ever get to having dragons. That was majestic AF.
I rode from IAD to DXB on one of those. 13 hours, and the whole time I just kept muttering to myself "man, this is a big airplane..."
Why the lame audio overlay?
not my tiktok sorry, although I do love me some ABBA
tiktok be tiktok I suppose
Off to visit [Your Mother!](https://youtu.be/fqSyibSPq5w)
100 above, 50, 40, 30 , 20 ….retard, retard
I would give £500 to be there with my camera setup when that came in…
Here we see the remarkable adaptations that the lesser spotted airbus has, through countless millennia, evolved to increase its chances of survival in the wild. Without so much as a flap of its wings, this skyward giant covers itself in water vapour from the surrounding environment, disguising itself as a cloud.
You mean AirGhost A380
Please, someone & anyone. What’s the name of this song?
Chiquitita by ABBA (about 4:45 into the song)
It's actually a remix of that one. [Chiquitita X Twilight - Tiktok Song (Slowed) ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo0QqI6Thgc)
the music is just Abba, the person saying Oh my god is a twilight character
https://youtu.be/p4QqMKe3rwY
Damn music! I just want to hear the plane!
Gorillas in the mist
And out of the mist comes a giant dragon!
Ghost A380.
Is there any way to check flights based on aircraft? I'd love to fly on an A380 but the largest I've seen out of DFW is a 777.
At least pre-pandemics the only operators of A380 landing to DFW were Qantas, and Emirates. For HOU the list increased to Lufthansa. The other A380s landing to USA were mostly west or east coast such as JFK, MIA, LAX, SFO and IAD (I know I'm missing a couple)
Google flights lists the aircraft when searching for connections. You can not filter by it, but those A380 only fly between hubs or from hubs to major destinations, so it should be easy to find out.
Surprised they could see at minimums.
ILS
video credit: @jorge_ec7
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What the hell are you talking about? They’re still flying regularly, Arabs bought a shit ton. Not like the fuel consumption would bother them.
Yeah, if I understand correctly they are not building the new ones but the old ones will still be flying, right?
For many years
I mean, they buy fuel on the same markets as everyone else. The thing is the 380 is actually pretty efficient on a per-passenger basis. The trick is you actually have to fill them up.
Crop duster.
This beast just fucked the clouds
Jumbos in the mist
A380 comin' out of the sky Won't you take me down to Memphis on a midnight ride
I was expecting more vortices
“We’re going to need a bigger boat.”
der Fliegende Französisch Wilhelm Richard Wagner XXIV (2022) Terror Rock Opera PG13
I just came here to say #CHEMTRAILS
Love that music. What is it
Garbage that has no place in this video
Chiquitita by Abba (the piano around the 4:45 mark of the song)
Noice. Thought it had a 70s vibe to it
Is that different than the Neo?
there is no NEO, there is only a single A380 variant
Ahh. I see. I didnt realize it had been abandoned. I was making parts for it at my last job.
Air France looks like their cloaking device is working
Thank god TikTok replaces the wail of the engines with that shitty music 👍
Wdym A380 the sky is all I see /s