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"Airports prepare for new jumbo plane"

Sunday, December 19, 2004
 
Airports prepare for new jumbo plane
The Associated Press


TOULOUSE, France (AP) - Airlines that have ordered the Airbus A380 are
pushing airports to quickly expand terminals and reinforce taxiways to bear
the plane's weight.

The wings of the A380 stretch nearly the length of a football field, about
50 feet longer than any plane in the air today. Inside the cabin, it has
room for at least 550 passengers - and as many as 1,000.

Dulles International Airport plans to spend $6.5 million next year to modify
two of its gates to accommodate the A380 after two carriers, Lufthansa and
Virgin, expressed an interest in flying the big plane to Washington. Plans
call for installing double-decker bridges so the plane could be loaded on
both decks at once. A spokesman for the airport said he does not expect the
A380 to arrive before 2007.

Reagan National Airport's terminals could not accommodate the A380, and
Baltimore-Washington International Airport has not heard of any airlines
interested in flying the plane there.


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