What a momentous day for ANA and a bittersweet feeling watching her depart Toulouse and "waving" left and right to the send off crowd at Airbus. The A380 is a great plane as passenger love the spaciousness. I will of course cover the interior and flights to Honolulu later on!
CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHAT AN A-380 WAS? I heard that Airbus is refusing to repay Germany 1 billion Euros borrowed to develop the A-380, but I'm not sure what the A-380 was.
@@contractorvegas5384 Not a chance. The 737 is the most desired airplane being produced today. The development of the A-380 was hugely short-sighted. The airline industry has a very slim profit margin and the cost of fuel is the issue all airlines are concerned with. The 737 is here to stay and the A-380 will be a failed memory soon. While the 747 will also endure, as it has for 50 years. Meanwhile the big European nations are fighting Airbus to repay 1 billion Euros in loans made to Airbus to develop the A-380 which Airbus is refusing to pay back now that the A-380 has ceased to sell. Europe foolishly made the A-380's competition with Boeing a matter of European pride from the beginning, which makes the A-380's faceplant that much more embarrassing for Europe.
ANA has great customer service. The best flight I have ever been on. Honolulu to Narita, then Manila. Was a wonderful experience. Love ANA'S flight crews and staff.
As a retired airline pilot it makes me very sad that the 380 production is being stopped. I understand the costs.....but I find the 380 an amazing aircraft!
There will be opportunity. It’s my dream as well. The airlines that fly them currently are not retiring them anytime soon. Emirates is flying 108 and expecting 54, so hop on one! Not only is it the cost, isn’t the fact that airports have to retrofit their jet ways to accommodate another factor? The Boeing 787s fit anywhere without the adjustment.
yes it is an end of an era of 4 engine widebody in-production aircraft,... but the A380/A3XX/ANWB (AirbusNewWideBody) however you want to name it was on its first flight 10 years to late for the party... still a magnificent achievement from airbus bringing this aircraft into the skies...
CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHAT AN A-380 WAS? I heard that Airbus is refusing to repay Germany 1 billion Euros borrowed to develop the A-380, but I'm not sure what the A-380 was.
A truly bittersweet moment captured and thanks to you, we are able to see this exclusive delivery. I especially love when the Airbus 'Beluga' fly over the flying Honu. A million thanks and congratulations to you Sam for allowing us and million more aviation enthusiasts to live vicariously through this moment... cheers for a million more miles to come!
I want to be on "Flying Honu" from Tokyo to Hawaii...after watching this amazing intro to this Unique design plane! Great concept of the sea Turtelboom!
Reminds me of a flight with an ANA 747 where my colleague and I were the only passengers on the entire aircraft from Copenhagen to Narita in the mid 90s. When arriving in the gate we thought the plane had booked all passengers and when we asked an ANA crew member, we were told there was nobody else going to board this giant 747. Extremely weird. In those days it seems there was some overcapacity. Nowadays I find myself in planes that seem almost always fully booked.
Congrats Sam for your 1 million suscribers. Always love watching your videos. What a beautiful livery ! I am so proud ANA named this beauty Flying Honu. I am polynesian and Honu is the polynesian name for turttle. Thank you ANA.
Finally! All Nippon Airways first A380 delivered! Now all 3 contries in Northeast Asia, China, Korea and Japan has A380🤩🤩 Among the whole A380 on earth ANA's A380 is the most beautiful and advanced aircraft👍 I am really excited and looking forward to see your next ANA A380❤❤❤❤❤
I live in the glide path to Honolulu International Airport and have seen the ANA A380 probably a half dozen times or so coming in to land. It's really quite impressive to see.
Congratulations on reaching 1M subscribers! What a great milestone - your hard work and quality content really does speak for itself! and WOW Japan's first A380! How exciting! There must be a huge demand on Honolulu - Tokyo route!
Thank you. Much appreciate it. It was lot of hard work indeed. Worked until 1am last night to finish the video but it was passion driven so never felt tired or bad about it!
Yes that is true! Lots of people from Japan usually come here and you can see them in Waikiki or ko olina. Planes that come here usually use 777, 767, 787 but this plane makes other planes not needed.
@@SamChui wow, good on you Sam! Love that you're so passionate about aviation and RU-vid. I can definitely tell that you are such a genuine person from the videos! Please keep making RU-vid videos. Greetings from Brisbane Australia :)
@@ryy4n_ That's so awesome! Yeah I would have never predicted a Japanese airliner to buy a380. Such a bold move for ANA. I want to visit Hawaii! Are you Hawaiian?
34" in pitch in Economy is what is needed on all planes. So great design and good planning from ANA. The livery is also very well done, especially after watching the new United one.
ANA picked an amazing livery for the Hawaii A-380! Also ANA is easily one of the best airlines on the planet. I hope they continue to offer an amazing product, and possibly more flights and routes internationally.
This livery has to not only be one of the best out there but such a great tribute for such a misunderstood aircraft. I hope Airbus do keep to their promise and this wonderful aircraft continues to fly for many years to come.
Greatly appreciate sharing this huge-expected moment of the delivery ceremony at Airbus Toulouse factory. As a comment about life of turtle of Mr. Katanozawa, CEO of ANA, hope this happiness will last forever. Many of Japanese people welcomed the Flying Honu at Narita Airport when its arrival. I am so excited flying with this ANA Flying Honu!! Mahalo~🎵
It’s like this is the new beginning for the A380 That is serving a high demand route that font be done by any other plane And it was nice to see the other sea animal photo boming
i am surprised HNL wanted to make the modification only for this plane though unless ANA is paying for that as well. I don't even know the NRT HNL route is that heavy though. I wonder how much of the first class going to be revenue.
Kind of bittersweet, just as other airlines are announcing they will be phasing 380’s out, here ANA is bringing a brand new one into its fleet. What a fantastic paint scheme.
I guess I will see it here in Honolulu eventually but I haven't seen it yet. Usually I can see all the planes flying to the airport from my house with a clear view...caught Air Force one flying by.
Sam you are one of the few youtuber that I‘ve watched every videos. Your videos and contents not only is top notch quality and brings a special excitement to impatiently watch the next episode. Thank you Sam!!
I like ANA. I had the pleasure of flying with them a few times on Asian routes. Always friendly, comfortable and clean. Their lounge at Narita is also quite nice. This plane looks quite interesting and comfortable.
I’m so happy for you hitting 1,000,000 RU-vid Subscribers, huge milestone for you. It’s also very exiting to see ANA getting an A380, so happy for you both and congratulations to all of your success.
Retired from Kuwait airways 21 March and my birthday is on that day too. Seeing a new A380 being delivered feels awesome. Wish their return A380 production and the freight version.
Such an emotional moment depicted here with the inauguration of this new A380. What a wonderful airplane. Long lives the A380. Thank you Sam for the video, and, as usual, have a nice flight. Bon voyage.
Some day my daughter and I will fly on this plane. She is 4 year old, and she simply adores the sea turtle livery. This video runs on repeat all the time!
Such a beautiful aircraft sam make sure you get on that first flight as i know you will try and do a great video for all of us to enjoy good job sam 👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you so much for featuring ANA’s A380...we are so excited to join A380 family! It’s arrived to Tokyo-Narita at 12:51pm on 21st safely. It was pity you couldn’t boarding this time. But I hope you will up the special video of this New ANA’s A380 review asap.
It's awesome to see this video. Yesterday I received a notification on my Flightradar24 app when this aircraft went airborne. 24 hours later I see this video. this channel is so awesome when it comes to anything aviation.
