MUNICH — Munich Airport has become the “butt” of jokes after coming up with a custom solution to house the *****’s largest passenger plane.
The Airbus A380, which can hold up to 853 passengers, is 73 metres long, which makes it too large to fit inside a hangar. With the plane’s **** fin sticking outside, the hangar’s doors were forced to stay open at all times. This meant maintenance workers were left shivering in the cold, as ******** temperatures in Munich average just two degrees.
So what did the airport do? They commissioned the design firm Butzbach to build a set of custom-made doors with a hole in the centre through which the plane’s “butt” could stick through.
20 Tonnen schwer & 22×11 Meter groß – ab sofort können Wartungsarbeiten am #A380 auch bei schlechter Witterung durchgeführt werden. @lufthansa @lufthansaNews pic.twitter.com/RJ7Qfc4d2X
— Munich Airport (@MUC_Airport) ******** 9, 2018
Brilliant!
On its Facebook page, the airport joked: “This butt is our definition of perfect.”
The airport houses five A380s after Lufthansa transferred more than a third of its A380 fleet from Frankfurt this past summer.