well some people love aviation and really get off on these new hi-tech advances in aviation. Look at what aviation was 20 years ago or even 40. People with common interests like to talk about this stuff. My only wish is that we were getting 787 rather than A350's, but l like built in America,if you can call it that, l guess l should say final assymbled in America. I just hope we have better luck with the A350 than we had with the A330. l've heard some stories. B)
US Airways to be one of the first domestic launch partners for A350
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I for one enjoy your optmisim. I'll take aliitle kool-aid over the bitter lemon aid anyday. It's easy to stay in that negative mode. Some will never leave it. We even have those that no longer work here that just love to come back and spread the venom of negativity. What miserable "humans".
I think people just know the reality that we are a LCC and it puts into play how much we would actually SPEND considering. I personally would love to see airbus pump in some extras to make this a/c spectacular seeing as we are the US launch customer AND considering the large INVESTMENT airbus has in US Airways.
More importantly, US needs to understand that todays customer sees ALL!! I was so embarrassed yesterday on the "It's A Small World" people mover in CLT. Here comes my a/c parking at B3 and scrapes of paint reveiling the silver wereleaving people in shock and some laughing.
As long as management treats the aircraft as jokes, the customer will continue to view us as a big joke. That, Rico, is why many find it laugable that US would chhose any one of the CONCEPTS, which I really like and wish they WOULD choose.
Because I got into aviation for the love of flying and planes in particular. I know to others it is just "a job", but gee-wiz airplane stuff has interested, and will always continue to be interesting to me (and many others on here).
"Big deal", no. Just a simple post of something cool for people that want to read it. Everything on here does not have to involve union politics or complaints about the company afterall.
I am tired of airline flying being reduced to nothing more than "greyhound with wings". If their is an occasional "wow" tossed into aircraft design, then I am all for it.
When some people (the usual suspects) use this as yet another chance to bit-ch and moan, then I will feel free to remind them that their pessimism is not always valid.
Anyways, back to the point of the thread (before it was hijacked by the naysayers), I am more curious of what our frequent fliers think of the design. Obviously passenger feedback is one of the reasons to even create design concepts in the first place.
Let's hear from the people that pay the fares...
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The delivery of this new aircraft is years away. And yes, they are concepts. There is a building in Toulouse that houses the mock ups. The customer can go in and "shop" for their interior scheme. There are option levels for aircraft interiors just as there are for automobile interiors.
But I wouldn't be too surprised that many of the "low end/basic" interior schemes slowly disappear. I think that there will be more mid-level interior schemes as the norm in the not too distant future. This goes along with the Airbus philosophy and way of doing business. For example, the E-log book is relatively new and optional. Only one operator in the United States, I'm quite sure, is utilizing it at this time. But it is not going to be an option from aircraft built from the A380 forward.
So the time is there for some of the current "concepts" to become more of the norm, to some degree.
But I wouldn't be too surprised that many of the "low end/basic" interior schemes slowly disappear. I think that there will be more mid-level interior schemes as the norm in the not too distant future. This goes along with the Airbus philosophy and way of doing business. For example, the E-log book is relatively new and optional. Only one operator in the United States, I'm quite sure, is utilizing it at this time. But it is not going to be an option from aircraft built from the A380 forward.
So the time is there for some of the current "concepts" to become more of the norm, to some degree.
