Singapore Airlines Unveils First Airbus A380 Interior

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Singapore Airlines unveiled the first A380 interior revealed at the aircraft delivery in France. The A380 is configured with 471 seats in three classes and features 12 Singapore Airlines Suites. The Suites are called “a cabin class beyond first class”.

The suites offer passengers their own cabin in the sky and were developed by French yacht designer Jean-Jacques Coste. Each seat in the suites is a meter wide with arms folded away and is fully adjustable. When a customer is ready to sleep the cabin crew makes up a full-sized bed inside the room. Read more

Posted on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:03:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Lufthansa Airbus A380 to Get Bunk Beds

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Lufthansa Airlines recently ran a poll on their website asking what passengers would think of being able to get lie flat beds rather than seats on some of their flights. A company spokeswoman says feedback on the idea has been good so far.

Rather than getting seats, passengers would get bunk beds stacked floor to ceiling in a triple deck configuration in a herring bone pattern around the outside of the plane. Read more

Posted on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:36:37 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Airbus A380 On-board Video Report from Test Flight

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As reported the A380 visited for the first time the United States last week. PupularMechanics had a reporter on-board during the test flight inside the US.

They published a nicely done video report from the experience flying with largest passenger plane on the planet. The particular A380 is configured for 520 passengers. The video shows how rather comfortable the A380 is and of course the sizeable on-board bar. There is also a visit to the cockpit and some chit-chat with the test pilot. The cockpit looks very sweet (photo).
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Posted on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Airbus A380 to Land in USA the First time Today

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The biggest passenger airplane is heading for the United States. One is coming from Frankfurt and will land at JFK airport in New York and Chicago. Another A380 has left France and is landing at LAX airport on the west coast.

Airbus and A380 launch customer Lufthansa are en route today to land for the first time the A380 in the United States. The whole operation is called commercial route proving. On board are over 500 passengers consisting mostly of Airbus and Lufthansa employees.

The A380 is impressive to see in low altitude. I saw it couple month ago during test flight near Munich. It is really huge. How can this thing fly? Must be magic.
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Posted on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:20:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Airbus A380 Takes Off Today!

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Posted on Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:29:28 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr