DBAHC: Screw Pan Am

[SactoMan101]

By the way, there's a reason why 1/3 of every Airbus airliner uses American parts: Pan Am insisted on it. That's why the Pan Am A380's use Engine Alliance GP7272 engines, the cockpit uses Rockwell Collins systems and have their interiors fitted out at the Airbus Completion Center at the Southern California Logistics Airport, the former George AFB.

(Indeed, Pan Am's influence was how they were able to secure what amounted to an Asian hub at Tokyo Haneda Airport when that airport opened Terminal 3 in 2007, including full A380 ground support. Indeed, Pan Am help offset the cost of extending the Tokyo Monorail and the Keikyu commuter rail line to Terminal 3.)

 

[Tales Weaver]

So, how would Tupelov and Ilyushin have been affected by Pan Am being screwed over? Historically, after Gorbachev's reforms to the USSR (which helped it last to the present day), Tupelov and Ilyushin found western customers in Pan Am.

Ilyushin and Tupolev wouldn't be able to compete with western jets.

 

[Tales Weaver]

Ilyushin and Tupolev wouldn't be able to compete with western jets.

That means that Asiana Airlines, a South Korean FSC, would have to resort to American and European jets, similar to korean air.

 

[Tales Weaver]

Asian hub at Tokyo Haneda Airport when that airport opened Terminal 3 in 2007, including full A380 ground support

They still use Haneda, even after narita opened in 70s.

 

[Mad Bad Rabbit]

Give the enormously-subsidized Space Station V contract to some other airline (TWA ?)

OR: have some horrific accident with the Orion III. They were seriously pushing the outer envelope of technology, and it was a miracle none of those things blew up on launch or burnt up on re-entry.

 

[Tales Weaver]

Another big plus for Pan Am was the fact they provided a LOT of input on the A330 and A340 models. The A330-300 proved to be an ideal plane for Pan Am's very busy transatlantic routes (especially when Airbus offered a higher weight version that increased the range to 6,200 nautical miles), and it was Pan Am's 40 plane A340-300 order that forced the International Aero Engines consortium to develop the V3000 SuperFan engine rated at 41,000 lb. thrust for the A340. The A340-300 with the V3000 proved to be quite popular, especially since it could fly over-water routes with no restrictions (Qantas ended up buying 20 planes because it could fly from Sydney to South America and South Africa with the most fuel-efficient routing).

Wait, boeing 777-200LR can fly from London to Sydney nonstop.. And it is a twin-engined.