So, with that in mind, here are a few A380 photos I have taken over the past few years.
Tuesday 19 February 2019
The End of a (Short) Era
The sad but inevitable news was announced on 14th February 2019 that the A380 would no longer be built after 2021. This is due to Airbus not being able to sell the aircraft - with no new orders for a while - and also with the A380's best customer, Emirates, deciding not to purchase any more and converting their remaining orders to other types. Passengers love the plane and, having flown on six different A380s with Malaysia, Singapore and British Airways, I completely agree, it's the most comfortable and nice plane I've flown on. Sadly, airlines don't love the plane as much as their customers do and it wasn't exactly selling like hot cakes, being expensive to purchase and possessing four engines which costs more to run.
So, with that in mind, here are a few A380 photos I have taken over the past few years.
So, with that in mind, here are a few A380 photos I have taken over the past few years.
Sunday 17 February 2019
Flickr
I had been using Flickr for a few years as it's easily shareable and you can directly link photos to Instagram, Facebook and other social media sites. However, Flickr were taken over by Smugmug (that's somewhat ironic and I'll get to that in a second) and are now asking that you pay up or you can't have more than 1000 photos on there.
As an existing Smugmug customer (that's the 'somewhat ironic' bit) I still have to pay separately for a Flickr account if I want to put more than 1000 photos on there and, as I pay quite a bit for my Smugmug account - as I have more than just the basic one - I've decided to let my Flickr account go and just put my pictures onto Smugmug. Yes, you lose the 'social' aspect of it in that you no longer have the interaction with others through likes, comments and followers but, frankly, the amount of likes you get is meaningless in the grand scheme of things and I quit worrying about things like that some time ago - especially as my ratio of likes to followers and views was rather pitiful, to say the least.
I don't object to paying and I would pay if I didn't already have the Smugmug account but I am not giving the same company two lots of money, especially when the 'free' sites include a lot of advertising.
Also, my most recent photos can now be seen on the home page 'slideshow'.
As an existing Smugmug customer (that's the 'somewhat ironic' bit) I still have to pay separately for a Flickr account if I want to put more than 1000 photos on there and, as I pay quite a bit for my Smugmug account - as I have more than just the basic one - I've decided to let my Flickr account go and just put my pictures onto Smugmug. Yes, you lose the 'social' aspect of it in that you no longer have the interaction with others through likes, comments and followers but, frankly, the amount of likes you get is meaningless in the grand scheme of things and I quit worrying about things like that some time ago - especially as my ratio of likes to followers and views was rather pitiful, to say the least.
I don't object to paying and I would pay if I didn't already have the Smugmug account but I am not giving the same company two lots of money, especially when the 'free' sites include a lot of advertising.
Also, my most recent photos can now be seen on the home page 'slideshow'.
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