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SYDNEY will be one of the first cities in the world to welcome the new Airbus A380 superjumbo on regular commercial service.
Launch carrier Singapore Airlines says it will begin commercial flights using the new plane between London and Sydney from mid-2006.
The airline’s A380s will seat just less than 480 passengers in a three-class layout, 30 per cent more than the number of passengers on the airline’s Boeing 747s.
The aircraft is distinctive because of its huge size and also the double-decker layout of the cabin.
How the interior of Singapore Airlines planes will look has not yet been revealed.
Chief executive Chew Choon Seng, speaking at the first public showing of the aircraft in Toulouse, said: “We have some interesting ideas for the cabin, but we will reveal them nearer the time of our first flights.”
Also speaking at the event, Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Atlantic said: “Virgin Atlantic’s A380s are going to be bigger and better than any aircraft which has preceded them with bigger and better cabins for all our passengers.
“For both business and economy travellers we will be introducing a range of new features. Our innovations will ensure a better travel experience for everyone by utilising the space we have to play with to give our passengers more to play with too.”
Virgin Atlantic will start using the A380 in 2008.
By: wysiwyg - 22nd March 2005 at 12:44
That’s news to me! I think it’s more likely to be an engineers personal viewpoint in light of the things that the wooly pully is coming out with.
As an aside…a mate came round the other day. He has just finished his 744 course with BA (previously 330 with bmi) and he had just had a chat with one of the fleet managers. He was told that BA will be ordering the A380 once the initial proving and initial operation of the type has been completed. The managers comment was that in the next few years you will need to have the 380 on your books if you want to be taken seriously as a world player (his words not mine). He also stated that 787 orders are inevitable.
By: wysiwyg - 22nd March 2005 at 12:44
That’s news to me! I think it’s more likely to be an engineers personal viewpoint in light of the things that the wooly pully is coming out with.
As an aside…a mate came round the other day. He has just finished his 744 course with BA (previously 330 with bmi) and he had just had a chat with one of the fleet managers. He was told that BA will be ordering the A380 once the initial proving and initial operation of the type has been completed. The managers comment was that in the next few years you will need to have the 380 on your books if you want to be taken seriously as a world player (his words not mine). He also stated that 787 orders are inevitable.
By: skycruiser - 22nd March 2005 at 12:30
Just come back from Joberg and I was talking to a Virgin engineer, he told me that there was a rumour flying about that Virgin wanted out of the A380 deal!!!!!!
Anyone heard???
Wysi, any info?????
By: skycruiser - 22nd March 2005 at 12:30
Just come back from Joberg and I was talking to a Virgin engineer, he told me that there was a rumour flying about that Virgin wanted out of the A380 deal!!!!!!
Anyone heard???
Wysi, any info?????
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March 21, 2005 at 3:41 am