Airbus pitches A380 to UA; will they bite?

[WorldTraveler]

Information about Skymark indicates how badly configured these aircraft are for normal passenger operations and why even if UA was willing to consider the A380, these aircraft make even less sense.

These two aircraft will likely be dismantled and written off as part of a larger transaction of one kind or another.

Airbus should have not built an aircraft that had such unique and non-standard interior requirements without obtaining much more of a deposit up front.

 

[FrugalFlyerv2.0]

Airbus should have not built an aircraft that had such unique and non-standard interior requirements without obtaining much more of a deposit up front.

 
Airbus probably didn't have the leverage to do so.

 

[WorldTraveler]

they can sign any contract they want or not.

If the aircraft is unique enough that it can't be resold or placed with other carriers, they can stipulate non-standard financial terms. It happens all the time in business. Airbus was just too anxious to place the A380 with another customer and Skymark knew it. Airbus should have required an increased deposit to cover the customized nature of those aircraft.

 

[topDawg]

Information about Skymark indicates how badly configured these aircraft are for normal passenger operations and why even if UA was willing to consider the A380, these aircraft make even less sense.

These two aircraft will likely be dismantled and written off as part of a larger transaction of one kind or another.

Airbus should have not built an aircraft that had such unique and non-standard interior requirements without obtaining much more of a deposit up front.

You are talking about the 330 not the 380. 
 
the 330s are in a Y+ type config from my understanding. It isn't that they would have to be dismantled it is simply no one wants to pay the lease rates the lessor is trying to get AND pay for the mod to a normal config. 
 
AFAIK the 2 380s are in TLS without engines and interiors 

 

[WorldTraveler]

supposedly the plumbing and the electrical on the 380s is non-standard as well which makes it very hard to configure them in standard int'l layouts used by most of the rest of the industry .