The world’s largest passenger aircraft A-380 touched down for the first time in India on Sunday to mark the second anniversary celebrations of Kingfisher Airlines.
This fully double-decker aircraft, which landed at 10.50 am, has a passenger capacity of 850 seats in all economy configurations, but in three classes it has the capacity to carry about 550 passengers.
Kingfisher Airlines has ordered five A-380 planes, which has a list price of over $300 million per aircraft.
The super jumbo aircraft is powered by four Trent engines manufactured by Rolls Royce and can fly 15,000 km non-stop.
During its India visit, it would be taking some VIPs on a flight of fancy over Delhi, and on Tuesday it will fly off to Mumbai.
Airports Authority of India and advance teams of Airbus Industrie had been on the job in Delhi to prepare for various facilities, including navigation of the super jumbo plane which takes the space of three Boeing 737 or Airbus 320.
This 80-feet-tall aircraft will be fly flying off from Mumbai on May 9.
By: pierrepjc - 8th May 2007 at 12:34
Thanks cloud9 good to see someone picked up on my slip.Can’t see me getting a free flight now for pushing another brand of beer, not for one minute that I was.
Link to the right site/beer.http://www.flykingfisher.com/
Paul
By: cloud_9 - 8th May 2007 at 11:32
Nice to see it doing the rounds, but would of been nicer to see it in the Kingfisher livery or at least some sort of Kingfisher markings.
Just think how much Cobra beer you could carry in one of those.:D 😀 😀
Paul
You forget that Kingfisher is also a brand of larger in India…so I very much doubt that they would stock a rival brand onboard.;)
By: KabirT - 7th May 2007 at 07:50
Do you think Indian Airlines are the forerunner to Kingfisher also applying for traffic rights to either Sydney or Melbourne?
Both airlines, if opertaing in Australia will make good money. I also think passengers would prefer to have direct flights from India to Aus. Qantas into Mumbai seems to be making money from there route. The only attraction to passengers via Singapore etc. is that many passengers, mostly students, have not seen those countries and usually stop on there way to Australia.
I am still surprised 9W has not been so keen on Aus routes.
By: steve rowell - 7th May 2007 at 07:16
Do you think Indian Airlines are the forerunner to Kingfisher also applying for traffic rights to either Sydney or Melbourne?
By: KabirT - 7th May 2007 at 05:52
That is a big debate, on what routes will Kingfisher apply these planes. Possible Europe and US.
The airline is planning to float another company in US, since it has 3 more years to cover before it can fly international according to Indian aviation laws.
By: steve rowell - 7th May 2007 at 05:42
On what routes will Kingfisher utilise their fleet
By: pierrepjc - 6th May 2007 at 18:39
Just think how much Cobra beer you could carry in one of those.:D 😀 😀
Paul
By: KabirT - 6th May 2007 at 16:53
pictures from Delhi…
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