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@SpaethFlies

6 months

Photo by #JAL pax @wmanzione clearly shows extensive collision damage to #A350 after hitting #Dash8 in a runway incursion at HND today #Japan #aircrash

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#Munich is buried under snow currently, heaviest in decades. @MUC_Airport closed until tomorrow. Snow took its toll last night already ❄️😯 #avgeek

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3 years

Flight into the sunset, almost: At 16.41 CET last @Airbus #A380 ever took off from #Finkenwerder on delivery to @emirates #avgeek

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I can hear you say "cute" 🤩- @FlyANA_official actually sells these stuffed turtles on their #A380 flights #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

Welcome back to @Airbus #Finkenwerder #A321XLR after first flight of 3:45mins #avgeek

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2 years

Night air show at #OSH22 (1): MiG-17 with afterburner taking off #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

4 years

New #A380 parking lot for @SingaporeAir : Alice Springs. Stunning pics by OutbackPhotographicsNT/Steve Strike #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

Amazing aerial shot by @RAFPhotog today of UK gvmt #A330 over Buckingham Palace today #London #QueensJubilee #avgeek

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2 years

Triumphal first landing ever of a wide-body direct flight from Europe today with @eurowings Discover #A330 touching down in Victoria Falls #Zimbabwe , I was happy to be part of it #avgeek

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3 years

Beautiful flypast now of @Airbus and @BoeingAirplanes 787, 777 and #A380 of @emirates and @etihad at opening ceremony of @DubaiAirshow #avgeek

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5 years

Think it's time to speak out on behalf of @flyethiopian . I visited its ultra-modern facilities in ADD often, last time a year ago. Hugely impressive how they conduct their ops. Training center is second to none and I trust ET's procedures. A shining example for #Africa

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3 years

Seems like @BoeingAirplanes #Boeing777X performed a touch of a barrel role today at #DubaiAirshow , stunning. In 1955 Tex Johnston did a full one on #Boeing707 prototype over Lake Washington #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

1 year

BREAKING: @Airbus order from @IndiGo6E is as follows: 500x #A321neo

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@SpaethFlies

4 years

Hommage to @flysaa facing the end (1): Stunning #avgeek video of flypast @ortambo_int in May 2019

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@SpaethFlies

8 months

#A340 -300 9H-BIG taxying this week at Easter Island #HangaRoa #Chile #RapaNui #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

6 months

The heyday of #Concorde flying to #Barbados - three at once touching down in BGI ca. 1997. Regular BA Saturday LHR flight, trial on new BA route JFK-BGI plus AF charter refueling on its way to HVA #avgeek

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4 years

Gate 1 @berlinairport #Tegel is the only one in the world with stop markings for #Concorde AND #A350 - the latter only added for last night’s @lufthansa farewell flight #avgeek #DankeTXL

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@SpaethFlies

11 months

BREAKING @Team_Luftwaffe #GermanAirForce will immediately retire both its remaining former LH VIP #A340 -300s after hugely embarrassing flap hiccup occured twice, stranding foreign minister in AUH canceling weeklong trip to Australia + South Pacific, reports @derspiegel #avgeek

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2 years

And liftoff! @Airbus #A321XLR airborne at 11.05 CEST #Hamburg #Finkenwerder @HamburgAviation #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

6 months

There was no crash for @JAL_Official_jp since #JL123 in 1985, its amazing safety culture was seen in #JL516 accident today with a textbook evacuation. I visited the JAL Safety Promotion Center in HND recently, anyone can, highly recommended #avgeek

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3 months

Probably the weirdest propulsion mix ever on a #Boeing747 - five engines of three different types on @RollsRoyce test bed, 44-year-old ex CX 747-200 now testing Pearl 10X biz jet engine #avgeek #QueenOfTheSkies

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@SpaethFlies

3 years

The more the better - two @lufthansa retro liveries in one shot @Airport_FRA , but actually photo-shopped as ATC would never permit a parallel approach on runways 25L and 25C #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

3 years

The two last ones of its kind - final two @Airbus #A380 ever in #Finkenwerder this week. MSN271 left and MSN272 right, one will join @emirates in November, the other in December, ending the program 🥲 #avgeek credit Jan Czonstke

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@SpaethFlies

3 years

Great shot of #Male airport #Maldives by The I and E shaped piers in the water on the right are where the Twin Otter floatplanes are operating from #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

6 months

This #JL516 video shows pretty well how long after apparently everyone had left the flames started to spread only slowly. Great testament to modern fire-retardent materials in cabin interiors #safety #aircrash

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@FlightModeblog

6 months

#JapanAirlines #JAL #JL516 #Tokyo #Haneda #A350 #Airbus #Japan

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2 years

OTD 2021: Last ever delivery of an @Airbus #A380 from #Finkenwerder going to @emirates as their 123rd, 251st built overall @HamburgAviation #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

Amazing sightseeing from @eurowings Discover #A330 today circling Victoria Falls in just 8,000 ft, what a treat #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

What a landing! Great idea for flight ops on highways maybe 🤩 #OSH22 #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

Not many airline CEOs fly their own carrier’s Wide-bodies like Wolfgang Raebiger of @eurowings Discover the #A330 . Taking off from an unusually rainy Windhoek this morning #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

Back to life: @lufthansa #A380 D-AIMK coming out of storage today @aeropuerteruel @TeruelAirport , ferried to FRA tomorrow credit Bardehle/Vidicom #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

Sparkling night air show #OSH22 (2) #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

3 years

BREAKING @SingaporeAir brings back first of 12 #A380 on November 18 on SIN-LHR-SIN SQ 322/317. FINALLY! #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

3 years

No words needed #kabulairport #KabulAirLift

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@SpaethFlies

9 months

What’s worse than not having a window seat? Not having one on a #Boeing787 when the crew darkens all windows on the ground at mid day 🥹 #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

4 years

Ghostly how little of the first production @Airbus #A380 is now left at Tarbes near Lourdes. Very likely I flew on this one at or around its world premiere with @SingaporeAir SIN-SYD Oct. 25, 2007. Distant memories... #avgeek (photo Jamie Price)

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

. @lufthansa tells me #A380 D-AIMK ferry flight from @aeropuerteruel @TeruelAirport to FRA is gear down as @TarmacAerosave can’t do gear swing to test functions after 2.5 years of storage, a safety matter. Flight time 3.5 hours due to lower speed/alt. #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

Seat pitch alarm! @Airbus wants to get #A320 recertified for 194 seats up from 180 by 2024/25 with cabin mods, ending up with 28"😳 Equally #A330 is to be upgraded to max 465 pax from 440. Legroom becomes the new gold... #PaxEx #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

Sad state of @Airbus #A350 MSN004 at Tarbes Lourdes @TarmacAerosave today #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

Spectacular flyby of @united #Boeing777 -300ER at #OSH2022 this evening, nice big airliner touch at the world‘s biggest air event #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

BREAKING @Airbus will use #A380 as #ZeroE demonstrator partnering with CFM #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

And the second @lufthansa #A380 D-AIMM being reactivated in @aeropuerteruel @TeruelAirport @TarmacAerosave for ferry flight at year end #avgeek credit: Michael Lamberty

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@SpaethFlies

2 months

TBIT @flyLAXairport yesterday under total @Airbus dominance - and five (!) airlines bring their #A380 😍 Who who'd have thought this three years ago... #avgeek credit Heny Lin

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

Beautiful final approach today on @airBaltic longest #A220 flight anywhere on a surprisingly busy Tenerife Sur 6:12 hours after leaving frosty #Riga #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

10 months

Renton 1966 @BoeingAirplanes @BoeingClassics 😍😍😍 #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

6 months

Wow 🤩😅premier after three decades of #aviation reporting: Tonight I’ll be THE ONLY PASSENGER of a scheduled flight, on #Beond #A319 from @MUC_Airport via DWC to #Maldives . 44 lie-flat seats and three cabin crew just for ME 😍 Will report #avgeek #PaxEx

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

The first @Airbus #A310 took off 40 years ago, the first #A380 just 17 years ago, but now they are equally disposed of at #Tarbes . Great shot by @MSN3503 #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

3 years

Amazing almost touch-and-go just now of last-ever @Airbus #A380 delivery to @emirates in #Finkenwerder #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

3 years

IFE Soviet style in an Aeroflot Tu-134, early 1970s #PaxEx #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

3 years

Blue skies over @HamburgAirport today, but a black day for anyone with respect for aviation history and adoration for the #Boeing707 #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

3 years

My all time fav #A380 photo: @airfrance @flyLAXairport masterfully taken by Jacob Brosseau (Insta @ops_jake ) - thanks so much for supplying it! #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

6 months

#Maldives airport MLE approach is impressive. Old runway left is now a very bumpy taxiway. New terminal opening gets postponed constantly, hope is mid 2024 now. Note world’s biggest floatplane ops to the right #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

3 years

"Hey oldie!"- "You ain't know nothing yet, young lady." The first and the last #A380 meeting nose-to-nose @Airbus #Finkenwerder last week @HamburgAviation #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

5 years

This is how it looked as @KLM had its fleet of 747-200s converted to stretched upper decks in the mid 1980s to 747-200SUDs, only airline that did this #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

10 months

And there she is: Premiere of new @airfrance #A350 tonight @MiWuLa miniature wonderland fully functional airport model in #Hamburg #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

3 years

Stunning if sad storage photos from @aeropuerteruel , I count 7 @lufthansa #A380 alone... #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

4 years

BREAKING @Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr now on fleet: "The only four-engine aircraft with a future is the #Boeing747 -8." Phase out of #A340 -600 and 747-400 will come soon #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

4 years

Northwest runway @Airport_FRA has become parking lot again for @lufthansa #Boeing747 fleet since yesterday, impressive but sad sight #avgeek (credit IG @flying_high_photos )

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@SpaethFlies

1 year

According to #PAS23 gossip it’s quite likely @IndiGo6E will order a batch of @BoeingAirplanes #Boeing787 tomorrow. Watch this space! #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

1 year

Just signed: @Airbus @IndiGo6E record order for 500 #A320 family aircraft #avgeek #PAS2023

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

Gear swing done successfully this week by first reactivated @lufthansa #A380 D-AIMK in FRA! Soon off for more heavy maintenance to @LHTechnik #Manila credit Jens Ritter/LH #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

3 years

First time I see a visual backing up the claim that a #boeing737 fuselage is as wide as a #boeing777 engine, hard to believe when you stand next to a GE90 #avgeek credit Capt. Behnham

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@SpaethFlies

10 months

Does anyone remember #PanAm dresscode for comp ticket pax? I had the experience once in 1990 on A310 MUC-JFK. Due to my sheepish outfit and non-fitting tie the F/A asked right away "you work for PA?", which I didn't. Felt really out of place even then #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

Coming back to life today in @aeropuerteruel @TeruelAirport @TarmacAerosave is @lufthansa #A380 D-AIMK, last flown in May 2020. Ferried to FRA tomorrow it’ll be online again from late March 2023 credit Michael Lamberty #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

This is what designer Remo Masala had in mind when designing the new @Condor livery - iconic appearence even without letters or big logos, credit: Munich Aviation Spotter #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

4 years

Above new @berlinairport #BER minutes ago - meeting @lufthansa LH2020 on our @easyJet inaugural to new airport #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

3 years

Still a crowd puller @emirates #A380 at #DubaiAirshow2021 Very glad I made it there #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

Those were the days of @emirates in its infancy - #Boeing727 taking off from DXB in 1993 - my photo #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

Sunset as seen on an #A380 winglet #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

4 years

Incredible and sad sight to see @Qantas #A380 lined up in #Victorville storage last week. Hope they'll all get back into the air #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

3 years

Resting in #Victorville : @Qantas #A380 credit @royalscottking #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

3 years

This must be the first #Boeing767 -300ER ever in #Antarctica , @Icelandair flight FI1010 landed at Troll field from CPT on Friday carrying about 30 Norwegian scientists #avgeek Pics Norsk Polarinstitutt via @flightradar24

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

BREAKING @Airbus first flight of #A321XLR will be next Wednesday June 15 in #Hamburg #Finkenwerder @HamburgAviation #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

3 years

Deputy chief pilot Heather Ross who flew 777-9 to #DubaiAirshow2021 explaining cockpit systems on the @BoeingAirplanes #Boeing777X to me today, including folding wingtip switch and indicator #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

3 years

Former @SingaporeAir #A380 9V-SKH meeting its end today in Singapore 🥲🥲 credit Andrew Hunt @airliners_net #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

New bold livery for @Condor - my first reaction was a laugh, but then I thought they are brave to dare sth new and distinctive, inspired by beach towels. First flight will be by green #A321 D-AIAD to ACE tomorrow. What do you think? #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

UPDATE Delivery of first @lufthansa #Boeing787 D-ABPA now expected by the end of August, D-ABPD 2nd in fall. Both originally for #Hainan / #Vistara not taken up. After weeks of cabin revamp in FRA first 787 will fly German domestic services for training #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

6 months

Sad sight in HND #Tokyo today as heavy equipment started to tear apart wreckage of #JAL516 便 #A350 after #JL516 crash, obviously not preparing to put any remains to re-use #avgeek credit Reuters

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

EXCLUSIVE @Airbus plans first flight of #A321XLR from #Finkenwerder on May 24, 2022 @HamburgAviation #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

Unbelievable that @British_Airways abandoned its emergency training centre at LHR leaving it to decay as these shocking pics of @DamienHewetson show. I took a course there a decade ago and find it unacceptable to just leave it behind like this #avgeeek

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@SpaethFlies

3 years

What an iconic shot - the essence of the early 1970s @lufthansavintag #Boeing707 #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

4 years

No German chancellor will have to switch to an airline again at the last minute since @Team_Luftwaffe takes delivery now of #FirstGovernmentalA350 for VIP transport @LHTechnik #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

6 months

Those were the times 😌 Four Concordes at once at @AeroportNice during Formula 1 Grand Prix Monaco in 1986 #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

1 year

The incredible automatic @BoeingAirplanes #Boeing777 -9 wing tip extension before takeoff #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

5 years

Probably the only airline in the world operating all current @Airbus types from #A318 to #A380 is @airfrance since introducing #A350 and still flying last #A340s #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

3 years

EXCLUSIVE Two last two @Airbus @emirates #A380 delivery dates from #Finkenwerder to DXB are scheduled for tomorrow Dec. 9 (MSN271) and Dec. 16 for the ultimate MSN272. Sadly no events for the end of an era at all due to the pandemic @HamburgAviation #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

4 years

BREAKING @Emirates will get their last three #A380 delivered only in 2022, two in April, last in May 2022. 3 are due still in December this year, among them first with new Premium Economy cabin on Dec. 20. Currently only about four out of 114 flying on a rotating base #avgeek

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26 days

The end of the line for proud quads - @Qantas #A380 and some 747-400s at VCV this week 🥲 credit Alberto Hurtado #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

Trying out the longest and highest aircraft slide from the #A380 upper deck at @emirates training center. @Airbus deliberately built in a visual barrier so the full height can’t be seen at first to not slow down evacuation #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

3 years

Last ever @Airbus @emirates #A380 delivery of MSN272 taxying out now at #Finkenwerder before take off to #Dubai #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

8 months

BREAKING @emirates orders 55 #Boeing777 -9 and 35 777-8s + 35 #Boeing787 @BoeingAirplanes #avgeek #DAS2923

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

The ultimate #Dubai race - @emirates #A380 vs @DubaiMetro . Guess who wins - at least from this perspective 😃 🚇✈️ #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

3 years

One last look at empty @berlinairport @B_TXL #TXL #Tegel #DankeTXL which officially gave up its status as an airport today. Let's hope the future campus to be housed here honors this unique early-1970s genius architecture #avgeek

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@SpaethFlies

4 years

BREAKING @lufthansa puts eight remaining @Airbus #A380 into long term storage instead of finally axing them already now. "Only in the case of unexpectedly quick market recovery" they would be ever flying again for the airline #avgeek photo Sebastian Thoma

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@SpaethFlies

2 years

This is how the new @Condor cabin on the #A330neo will look like complementing the striped livery, the aircraft being delivered from fall. C Class looks very sleek and on par with big airlines #avgeek #PaxEx

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5 months

When one of the brightest-liveried aircraft ever comes back as a keytag reincarnation: @AirGreenlandSAS first #A330 has now been upcycled by @aviationtag_com #avgeek