Happenings in Dubai
The Big news of the last few days, has been the landing of the Emirates first Airbus 380, landing in Dubai. And, getting ready for it’s first flight to New York tomorrow, the first of August. People turned up in the hundreds/thousands, to see the great ‘bird’ landing at Dubai airport, and rightly so. All with their cameras, of the real kind or the mobile phone kind, of course. Kids, aspiring(inspired?) to be pilots, were thrilled to be seeing the landing of the A380 and were some of those who ” waited patiently in the sweltering heat for at least an hour at the Airport Expo parking lot for a glimpse.” I was just reading the interview of the pilot of the superjumbo in a local paper, and he said” I had butterflies, thinking “I’m going to be flying that in 10 minutes.”You really feel it’s magnitude”. Incidentally, the price of this 469 seater superjumbo,for those intersted in the economics of it, is ‘just USD 320 million’, and, Emirates will finally have a fleet of 58 of them. That add...