Singapore Airline A380

[Spaice]

Singapore airlines are replacing a Boeng 747 400 with an Airbus A380 on the Singapore - London route commening March 18th 2008.  The flight will operate with the flight number SQ322, leaving ealry evening and arriving at Heathrow early Morning and then departing Heathrow before Noon.

If anyone ownes a RB and lives near Heathrow, perhaps you could leave it on and connected to the network, so that we can watch the first commercial arrival of this fine aircraft.  I will leave my RB switched on, which should give good coverage of the Bovingdon stack.

[AirNav Support]

We always have good coverage of the Heathrow on the network. We have a support member who is nearby who is on 24/7. May not be online at the moment due to 1.4 testing but should definitely be online by then.

[Spaice]

That's great, looking forward to seeing the A380 for my first time on the RB, hopefully I will get a chance to see it on is finals into Heathrow as I work in west London and get good views of the aircraft on finals.

[BobR]

That's great, looking forward to seeing the A380 for my first time on the RB, hopefully I will get a chance to see it on is finals into Heathrow as I work in west London and get good views of the aircraft on finals.

Just as well I don't work in the same location.... I would get the sack!!

[titigti]

Just received via planeplotter mailing:

The first flight with flight number SQ 308 will take off from
Singapore at 9:00 am local on 18MAR2008 and will arrive in London at
15:05 the same day.

Then late afternoon at 18:55 it will head back as flight SQ 319 and
will arrive at 15:35 on 19MAR2008.

Scheduled A380 services (Northern Winter 2007/2008)

SQ 322 Singapore-London
Daily from 18 March 2008
Dep 2320 arr 0525+1

SQ 317 London-Singapore
Daily from 19 March 2008
Dep 1100 arr 0740+1

Scheduled A380 services (Northern Summer 2008)

SQ 322 Singapore-London
Daily from 30 March 2008
Dep 2330 arr 0555+1

SQ 317 London-Singapore
Daily from 30 March 2008
Dep 1155 arr 0745+1

So watch your radarbox tomorrow :)

Greetings,
Etienne

[Allocator]

The callsign to set the alert for will be an SIA prefix, not SQ.

So, Alert settings should be:

Flight ID

SIA308
SIA319

Aircraft

A38*

And maybe add SIA* to the fleet watch list.

I can't remember what the registration is, but you could put this in the Registration alert box too!  This should ensure that you capture the A380 whatever data it is showing.

Don't forget to tick the "Activate Alerts for Network Flights" box in the Alert section, this way you should pick it up way before it gets to Heathrow :-)

I don't have access to Network data at the moment, but maybe somebody can see the aircraft right now?

[DaveG]

News item on BBC about the A380 today  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7301455.stm

[Allocator]

I think that the registration for this aircraft is 9V-SKA

The other 2 due to be delivered are 9V-SKB and 9V-SKC

[tarbat]

SIA308 took off 19 minutes later than scheduled.  Expect at LHR at 2:44pm - details from flightstats.com

No sign of it on the RB or PP networks yet.

[tarbat]

Its on the RB network over Poland:

[tarbat]

New aircraft (A380) meets old aircraft (B747):

[Allocator]

Can't see your pictures tarbat!

[tarbat]

Okay, try these instead.

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[Really]

Another A380 is also in the air F-WWOW

[AirNav Support]

Its about 20 minutes early, so heads up to anyone in London.