How roomy do you think is the upper deck of the Airbus A380?
A picture of the upper deck of the first plane – with a complete, 8 abreast Economy row in picture, but far in the background:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/972843/L/
Do you fancy spending hours in that window seat?
A closer view of a partial row:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/958995/L/
For comparison, an Airbus 340-600 prototype in a comparable stage of completeness:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/371822/L/
A part of the A380 has been made more habitable – with Business seats:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/958875/L/
For comparison, one example of a 340-600 Business Class in service:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/535228/L/
So – which one do you think is the more roomy and comfortable?
By: EGBB - 16th January 2006 at 08:55
Murph is correct – The aircraft is just in test config:
http://www.airteamimages.com/18220.html
http://www.airteamimages.com/18218.html
http://www.airteamimages.com/18215.html
http://www.airteamimages.com/18211.html
Cheers,
Derek
By: murph - 16th January 2006 at 08:44
I think those seats are just lobbed on there to give the test crews something to sit on, as supposed to a customer option?
By: chornedsnorkack - 16th January 2006 at 08:42
Looks to me as the A380 could be the roomy and more comfortable of the two, but I don’t really like the seats on it. If they combined the roominess or the A380 with the seats from the pic of the A340, then I think they (whoever ‘they’ are?) would be onto a winner…
It shouldn´t be a problem. This is probably exactly what the customer airlines do.
By: cloud_9 - 14th January 2006 at 15:05
Looks to me as the A380 could be the roomy and more comfortable of the two, but I don’t really like the seats on it. If they combined the roominess or the A380 with the seats from the pic of the A340, then I think they (whoever ‘they’ are?) would be onto a winner…
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January 13, 2006 at 5:04 pm