I am afraid they will fail to use those A380s properly anyway. 12 is too much even by 2020.
Do you think it is a big task preparing a few airports in Iran to serve this giant bird while they spend tens of billions on the plane itself? Iran that can afford buying A-380s will definately afford to equip its airports for them.. It is not a big deal specially when their delivery is years away
As authorities announced some international airports in big cities are preparing needed infra and emergency equipment for these big fellas (A-380s)... It takes a few years for the A-380s to be delivered and therefore, it is not a difficult task to prepare airports for them...
Aside from official announcements I have a retired friend of the same industry talking couple of days ago about this, he said, A-380s are being bought for a single reason by IranAir. Iranair was once one of the biggest global names in aviation industry and back then Iran Air as a new rival needed some winning cards to attract attention globally, this is why they were after B-747s and achieved records back then. He also said, there are at least 5 airports assigned to be made ready for these birds. Both as commercial-serving airports and also as emergency airports on the route for flights crossing Iranian air space (inlcluding A-380s took off or intended to land from/in IKA airport in Tehran)
So, ordering 12 big A-380s have some bold applications which is quite needed for Iranian aviation if she wants to go global again:
- It tells the world (passengers), you can trust me with your serious, long range flights as I have the best options available
- It is the best option for prestige and you always can maneuver on these big birds in your ads. It is hard to bold your rebirth by small or not-promotion-worthy airplanes. These birds will help Iran Air back on track globally soon.
- To serve Iranian diaspora in other part of the world (USA, Canada, Australia, UK), you need long range big planes which A-380 does it well..
Negative, IKIA's runway is not suitable for A-380.runway's length is ok but its asphalt is not suitable.for instance last year an Emirate A-380 managed to land on IKIA, half loaded because of IKIA's limits.
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for IKIA they have to strengthen one of its runways as a short term answer or they should accelerate the construction of IKIA phase 2.besides Tehran, ADP company will upgrade Mashhad and Esfahan for A-380 flights as well.
The New runaway (Southern Runway) can host A-380s and there is no problem with the runways on the delivery time.. The problem comes from emergency evacuation of 2 stories planes and some procedural standards needed for such a big bird and by ordering 12 of these planes, all new needed infra will be installed.
رضا قدیمی در گفت‌وگو با خبرنگار اقتصادی باشگاه خبری فارس «توانا»، ضمن اشاره به پیشرفت روند اجرایی فاز دو فرودگاه امام خمینی (ره)، به عملیات احداث باند دوم پروازی این فرودگاه اشاره کرد و اظهار داشت: مجری اجرای باند دوم فرودگاه، همان مجری فاز دو است که با پی‌گیری‌های مطلوب این بخش، پیمانکار در احداث باند مذکور چند درصد هم از اهداف برنامه جلوتر است.وی ادامه داد: برای اجرای پروژه‌ها در فاز 2 بیش از 50 قرارداد مطالعه و طراحی انجام شده است؛ همچنین در باند جنوبی فرودگاه نیز فعالیت مناسبی در حال انجام است.مدیرکل فرودگاه بین‌المللی امام خمینی(ره) با اشاره به اینکه در احداث باند جنوبی و ترمینال زیارتی از برنامه جلوتر هستیم، تصریح کرد: مدرن‌ترین تجهیزات کمک‌ناوبری برای باند جنوبی در نظر گرفته شده است. قدیمی افزود:
این باند بزرگ‌ترین باند پروازی است که در داخل کشور ساخته می‌شود بنابراین ایرباس380 به عنوان پهن‌پیکرترین هواپیما نیز قادر است در این باند لندینگ کند.مدیرکل فرودگاه امام‌خمینی (ره) با بیان اینکه این باند پروازی دارای 60 متر عرض و بیش از 4 هزار متر طول است،
If Iran is going to get 12 A-380s Then I think our major airports need a revolution . IK and Isfahan airports should be prepared to keep 380s in hangars while Mashhad , Mehrabaad , Tabriz , Shiraz airports should have landing capacity for 380 . Otherwise in response to a crisis ,The plane should fly 1000 km to perform an emergency landing and that's not good . What do you think bro ?
Guys what the hell is wrong with Mashhad airport's runway (or planes
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https://defence.pk/threads/iran-air...-380-16-a-350-jets.419324/page-4#post-8117287
بهمن ۱۳۹۴:یک فروند هواپیمای ام دی ۸۳ متعلق به
هواپیمایی زاگرس هنگام فرود از باند فرودگاه مشهد خارج شد این سانحه تلفات جانی نداشت.
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بهمن ۱۳۸۸: یک
فروند توپولف تی یو-۱۵۴ با ۱۵۷ مسافر پس از
فرود روی
باند فرودگاه مشهد آتش گرفت. در اثر این حادثه داخل
هواپیما به کل سوخته و بال سمت راست و دم و چرخ هواپیما جدا شدند و ۴۲ تن از مسافران به بیمارستان منتقل شدند.
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۲ مرداد۱۳۸۸:
پرواز شماره ۱۵۲۵ هواپیمایی آریا تور که از تهران به مشهد حرکت می‌کرد ساعت ۱۸:۰۵ دقیقه در
فرودگاه مشهد، در هنگام فرود از باند خارج شد و به دیوار فرودگاه برخورد نمود.
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Airports with A-380 capabiltiy will be on all sides of Iran (5 probably) to make sure A-380s find a close airport in case of emergency. Isfahan or Shiraz will be one of these.
BTW, There is nothing wrong with Mashhad airport. The problem comes with old planes take off and land on Mashhad airport. The reason you hear the most about planes crashing there is because the number of flights taking off//landing in Mashhad airport is a lot comparing to other airports... Mashhad airport is even busier than IKA airport in terms of passengers and planes using it... Hopefully with new planes we no longer hear such news... The good thing is that recent plane accidents mostly have no casualties...
no news about modernizing our civilian airtrafic control system
There are such projects underway bro... For instance, IKA and Mashhad airports are almost the end of a revoutionary modernizing their equipment...
well if you have a storm in Tehran then mehrabad is not a viable landing alternate
well I wonder why they allowed the airplane land in that airport that airplane have a history of skidding of runway in snowy weather.
Planes land and take off in snowy weather from Mashhad every minute... The problem was the old plane
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