09 January 2015

Qatar Airways bases on 10/Jan the 1st A350 to London Heathrow for noise demonstrations.

Qatar Airways is basing onSaturday its first Airbus A350-900 at London Heathrow where it will undertake noise demonstrations with the airport operator in coming 4-5 days.



Source: Airbus



Speaking in Toulouse during the delivery ceremony for the first A350 on 22/December, Qatar Airways group CEO Akbar Al Baker said he wanted to use the A350 to demonstrate how quiet modern aircraft are to the airport’s local residents.


Source: Airbus


“We will base our first A350 at Heathrow for 4 to 5 days at the beginning of January to measure its noise emissions to prove to the British people that staying in the vicinity of an airport with modern aeroplanes flying around, they will hardly disturbed,” he said.


Source: Airbus



The A350 is going to be ferried to Heathrow for the trials as Qatar Airways works up with the new type ahead of its service debut on 15/January between Doha and Frankfurt.






Based on the article “Qatar A350 to operate Heathrow noise trials in January” published in Flight International.

4 comments:

  1. How does the noise contour of the A350 compare to the Boeing 747-8 and the 787?

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  2. No public data concerning A350 noise contour populated by Airbus yet.

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  3. Arriving 14:00h Saturday 10/Jan going to stand 454
    12:00h Sunday 11/Jan ground trials
    Monday 12/Jan press-flight departing 10:05h arriving back at 12:05h
    Depart for Doha 14:00h on Monday 12/Jan

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  4. QTR3551, A350 made a hell of a racket thundering overhead. It was certainly not quiet. Not even less noisy.

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