Air France will use the A380 for their 3 daily flights between Montreal-Paris that'll be awesome

its a Canadian company (10 km from my place) that developped the A380 simulator... CAE www.cae.com

WARNING: Extreme self whoring ahead

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Originally posted by fn_xtc The A380 would be too big for a DXB-YYZ route. But EK do fly daily to JFK from DXB

Exactly, the YYZ-DXB route is still in the works, but currently neither YYZ or DXB are nig enough to handle these behemoths.

http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/middle...elations-en.asp

BUT.. luckily DXB is expanding.. a 'small' cost of $2,500,000,000 USD \o/


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DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TERMIAL, CONCORSE AND MUCH MORE AT DUBAI AIRPORT.

Construction work for Terminal 3, concourse 2 and concourse 3 is scheduled for completion by 2006
Cost: $2.5 billion
Up to: 60 million passengers a year

CONCOURSE 2
Directly connected to Terminal 3, Concourse 2 is dedicated exclusively to Emirates. The building will include a multi-level structure for departures and arrivals at Dubai Airport incorporating 27 contact gates and 59 passenger-loading bridges. Additionally, there will be a direct connection to Sheikh Rashid Terminal located at the control tower structure. There is also a 300-room hotel and health club that will include both five and three star rooms. A further 10,000m² of commercial space will be home to Dubai Duty Free and restaurants. Concourse 2 will include five aerobridges capable of handling the new Airbus A380 Super Jumbo. The two concourse buildings will be linked via this airbus, enabling transiting passengers to move freely between the two buildings.

CONCOURSE 3
The third concourse has been included in the expansion programme to accommodate the increased number of passengers at Dubai Airport from the new A380 Super Jumbo.

Concourse 3 will be a scaled-down version of Concourse 2, incorporating climate-controlled lounges. It will have 27 contact gates; 12 gates will be for the A380. The two concourses will be connected via electric buses.






















BUT

Dubai also needs a second airport along with 850 buildings!!







Here's a thread with more info (although it does turn into a VERY nasty flame war):
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=167952

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Originally posted by karim The Emirates is the halfway point for the western world and the far east. It's become a center for meetings between major world corporations from the east and the west. It's conveniently located and it's relatively lax trade laws make it the new Hong Kong. It's unreal how much money flowed through Dubai, and it's unbelievable how much they're reinvesting to make sure it stays as one of the leading commercial center of the world. Their new building (the burj) is almost 1000 feet higher than the Freedom Tower that is proposed for the WTC site in NYC. Karim

jsut for informational purposes, its not "the burj" its "burj dubai"... adn the links to that kilometre tall structure can be found in Kaz's signature

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Originally posted by malek what is it with you and Dubai? its just a bubble man, it'll burst.

Abu Dhabi is way cooler right?


oh i miss Abu Dhabi

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Originally posted by malek what is it with you and Dubai? its just a bubble man, it'll burst.

LoL...that's what I said, that guy's dubai-crazy....either way, all that madness of development they have there, i really don't think they'll be able to sustain it - not trying to piss on anyone's parade or anything but it's like the tech bubble - but who knows.

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there's no doubt that they can build all those buildings and 10 times more... but they need companies and people to fill them.

Since you can't become a citizen, who's really intrested in moving in that place?? Going thru the hassle of renewing your resedency papers every 6 months? no thanks.

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Originally posted by EvilTree I say we take over one of those planes and have a TOTA party on it.

OMG.. he actually exists!!!!!!!!!!!




yes i say the same thing.. hijack that shit and have a huge party

i mean.. legally of course

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Originally posted by malek what is it with you and Dubai? its just a bubble man, it'll burst.

Well, very few cities are lucky enough to have the amount of capital to start a proper cosmopolitan city. The last city that came even close was NYC. (Recall back in the 30's the two tallest buildings in the world were both in the NYC). NYC was affected by all the major wars, many recessions and massive infrastructure loss.. and they're fine.


And yes DJ El Kay Dee, Abu Dhabi is much cooler .. because they are going to undergo a construction boom even bigger than Dubai's! As a matter of fact it has already started, check out this $9,500,000,000 USD development on Abu Dhabi's offshore.

http://www.tradearabia.com/tanews/n...e=79498&Sn=REAL

http://uaehits.com/pics3/The-Pearl-01.jpg
http://uaehits.com/pics3/The-Pearl-02.jpg




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Back on topic.. the Airbus A380 is pretty cool!