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The next new airline to operate the Airbus A380 after Singapore, Emirates and Qantas is Air France, who will start flights on 23 November with their first aircraft, F-HPJA. Another two will follow by Spring 2010.
The airline has announced the routes the aircraft will operate as:
Dubai (1 February 2010)
Johannesburg (early 2010)
New York JFK (23 November 2009)
Tokyo Narita (spring 2010)
All will operate from Paris CDG airport. Interestingly, the route to Dubai will start 15 days before Emirates start using A380s on their Dubai – Paris route.
The aircraft will visit Paris Orly on 11 November to test the airport as a diversion field from CDG.
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Jaunted blog recently ran an interesting piece on New York’s Citi Field stadium, where the Mets play their baseball games. Whilst those in the highest seats have usually paid the least for them, and suffer the long climb and distant views of the game, there is actually the benefit of having a view of arrivals at La Guardia Airport. Planes will also depart right over the stadium.
Take a look at the blog post here for an interesting picture of what you can see.
http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/7/23/132132/122/travel/Watch+For+Fly+Balls+And+Landing+Planes+At+NY%27s+Citi+Field
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Plane Spotting Hotels website has a nice section on hotels at New York JFK for those wanting spotting views at the airport.
The Holiday Inn and Ramada Plaza hotels are the best options.
The Holiday Inn has distant, but good, views – particuarly for those with telescope poles. Having a SBS is also definitely useful here! Rooms that don’t face JFK have distant views of La Guardia airport, which is also useful if you have a SBS.
From the Ramada, rooms have views of aircraft when landing on runway 13L, but there’s also a grassy bank area a short walk from the hotel with much better views.
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I just came across a great website for the spotting community around New York City. It has guides and maps to all the main airports there, and many other interesting and useful bits of information.
The site is: www.nycaviation.com
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