How long to refurbish an A380?

[ishin]

Just a general question.....how long is an A380 out of service normally for refurbishment?

 

[moa999]

Depends on what is being done.

The 737 slimline toilets and add a row of seats about 2wks, 737 WiFi Install is taking 7-10 days, and the 330 refurb was a 4-6 week process from memory.

But these things are often combined with other big checks given for some checks you need to rip out all the seats anyway.

 

[Himeno]

Depends what they are doing and when.
If they are just replacing the seats, it might take 3 weeks.
If they replace the seats at the same time as doing a D check, when they remove the seats anyway, then it wouldn't take any longer then the D check would normally have taken anyway.

When AA added "main cabin extra", they were adding it to their narrow bodies overnight (pull out 1 row of seats, realign the rest)