Various Airbus designs

Market driven commercial passenger airplane sizing/marketing will always remain a mystery to me...
 
Apophenia said:
There was no A360 (or A370) ... Airbus jumped from A350 to A380 for marketing reasons.
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Just like Lockheed Martin jumped from straight from Atlas III to Atlas V - funny how Being competitors seem compelled to jump serial numbers...
 
hesham said:
Why is that my dear Apophenia,I don't understand ?.
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Airbus' marketing department wanted A380 for their large doubledecker. So, the numbers 'A360' and 'A370' were skipped over.

There is some online guessing-games as to why 'A380' was preferred as a designation ... but I wouldn't put too much value on those speculations.
 
Apophenia said:
Airbus' marketing department wanted A380 for their large doubledecker. So, the numbers 'A360' and 'A370' were skipped over.

There is some online guessing-games as to why 'A380' was preferred as a designation ... but I wouldn't put too much value on those speculations.
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Thank you my dear Apophenia,

but is there any confirming from the company ?.
 
There is some an unofficial designations,

A.332,A.333 & A.337.
 
Apophenia said:
Airbus' marketing department wanted A380 for their large doubledecker. So, the numbers 'A360' and 'A370' were skipped over.

There is some online guessing-games as to why 'A380' was preferred as a designation ... but I wouldn't put too much value on those speculations.
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The reason often quoted is, number 8 means "luck" among asian cultures; and Airbus certainly hoped to sell A380 in Asia...
 
hesham said:
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Those are not manufacturer's codes, but codes issued by ICAO.
en.wikipedia.org

List of aircraft type designators - Wikipedia

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ICAO codes are published in ICAO Document 8643 Aircraft Type Designators[1] and are used by air traffic control and airline operations such as flight planning. While ICAO designators are used to distinguish between aircraft types and variants that have different performance characteristics affecting ATC, the codes do not differentiate between service characteristics (passenger and freight variants of the same type/series will have the same ICAO code).
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DOC 8643 - Aircraft Type Designators

Page ContentThis document contains designators for those aircraft types which are most commonly provided with air traffic service (ATS). It was originally prepared as a result of recommendations of the Rules of the Air and Air Traffic Services/Operations Divisional Meeting (May 1963) and the...
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hesham said:
There is some an unofficial designations,
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I would rephrase that as non-Airbus designations.
 
hesham said:
Thank you my dear Apophenia,

but is there any confirming from the company ?.
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I had this discussion internally when I was working for Airbus: at that time, the designation of the big Aircraft was still A3XX. I was friend with Philippe Jarry who was the chief vendor of this particular model for Airbus. He explained me that selecting A380 was a pure marketing choice, letting space between A3"40" simple-deck and the "double-deck" A3"80" (80 = 2x40).
A350 was introduced in between many years after.
 
PhR said:
I had this discussion internally when I was working for Airbus: at that time, the designation of the big Aircraft was still A3XX. I was friend with Philippe Jarry who was the chief vendor of this particular model for Airbus. He explained me that selecting A380 was a pure marketing choice, letting space between A3"40" simple-deck and the "double-deck" A3"80" (80 = 2x40).
A350 was introduced in between many years after.
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Shape of digit "8" resembles the double-deck passenger cabin cross section... sort of.
 
Apophenia said:
Airbus' marketing department wanted A380 for their large doubledecker. So, the numbers 'A360' and 'A370' were skipped over.

There is some online guessing-games as to why 'A380' was preferred as a designation ... but I wouldn't put too much value on those speculations.
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If I may add my two cents, it seems, what I read somewhere, that the number "8" is a lucky element in the culture of some developing countries but with strong purchasing power. Hence the numerical designations "A380" for Airbus or "787" for Boeing ... QED !
 
From JAWA 1993-94,

the ASX-500,ASX-600 & DASA-2000 data
 

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From Technika Lotnicza 1991,

they called it Airbus A.1200 ?.
 

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