1st A380 For Lufthansa Options

[ChillSpiller]

Ok, I'm a bit late... but Lufthansa has received its first A380 on May 19th last week! For Airbus it is the fifth delivery of this giant bird. As they are already well prepared for the A380 in Frankfurt Airport as well as Lufthansa Technik had its maintenance hangar finished last year it will enter route proving and training immediately. It will fly the route Frankfurt to Tokyo from June 11th on in regular service. Lufthansa is to be the first european customer to receive its A380.

Here are some links:
Lufthansaweb
Aviation Correspondent

[Kilrah]

It will fly the route Frankfurt to Tokyo from June 11th on in regular service. Lufthansa is to be the first european customer to receive its A380.

Huh?
Air France started revenue service with theirs in Nov. 2009, just a mere 6 months earlier
Or maybe AF isn't European?
Your source must be a bit selfish

Anyway, they should really have updated their livery, looks even more boring than usual on the poor thing...

[ChillSpiller]

Darn, you are absolutely right. Guess that happens when you simply copy and paste. My bad, sorry! Well, then it's simply germanys first A380...

[bluebird121]

Has anyone here flown on the A380? I would love to except they do not fly from Brisbane.. Yet.!!.
I am flying in Boeing 777-300ER to the UK.. Not quite the same Chill

[ChillSpiller]

Not the same no, but still a very nice aircraft with impressive engines!
Unfortunately I haven't flown on the A380 yet but I was able to get a little tour in MSN001 at Le Bourget Airshow. Sure is a marvel of modern technologies. I can't wait to hitch a ride on it. If I were you I'd take the route via Sydney

[bluebird121]

Not the same no, but still a very nice aircraft with impressive engines!
Unfortunately I haven't flown on the A380 yet but I was able to get a little tour in MSN001 at Le Bourget Airshow. Sure is a marvel of modern technologies. I can't wait to hitch a ride on it. If I were you I'd take the route via Sydney

You never know Chill. I will see what transpires after I come back from the UK to Australia. On my list of 'must do's'.

[karlhurst_380]

Has anyone here flown on the A380? I would love to except they do not fly from Brisbane.. Yet.!!.
I am flying in Boeing 777-300ER to the UK.. Not quite the same Chill

Indeed! I flew HKG-SIN-LHR on 9V-SKC and 9V-SKI. Now I flew on the 777-300ER outbound, now I was impressed by how quiet that was... I was in awe of the A380! very, very quiet. Don't count on sleep though if theres a baby or small child in your cabin, they kept turning the seat belt sign on due to turbulence and the damn child kept waking me up!

The only gripe, from an enthusiasts point of view, is the windows; especially on the upperdeck where the fuselage curves, but it wasn't a massive annoyance, though for filming if you want to do it discreetly is a pain, due to the large gap between cabin and fuselage.

Absolute dream for a comfy flight though.

[ChillSpiller]

*pure jealousy from my side*

And now don't start complaining about it being too quiet or too spacey!
By the way was your flight sold out and what did you pay if I may ask?

[galaxy]

Yesterday 8 june , the first Lufthansa A380 visited Brussels for a test flight .
Take a look :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znGx8dM5exk

[ChillSpiller]

Nice! Guess you enjoyed the day! That will be a regular view in Frankfurt soon. I even saw it in Cologne last week, as they also did some route proving and commercial over there too. Unfortunately UPS cancelled their orders or else it would have been a regular visitor in Cologne too.

[Fast Jet]

I know! I test flew it!
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I lie. sigh . . . .

[ChillSpiller]

LOL, you whish! But same here. I'd even be satisfied with a Cargo Box seat...

[ChillSpiller]

Again a bit late from my side but still a brilliant media attracting move by Lufthansa. Lufthansa's first A380 had its first official pax flight on june 7th with the german national football team aboard. The upper deck was completely reserved for the team, their trainers, some press and Shakira (who arrived late and had the plane wait for her...). Even some 150 football fans were on board the A380 on the lower deck. As newsarticles stated the players were astonished by the luxury and comfort on board of the new flagship. Everyone seemed to be excited about trying out the new gadgets on board an were delighted about the silence in flight.
Here's a little clip from the boarding ceremony and some animated views of the interior.
What an opening for the world cup this. That fourth star is a must

[karlhurst_380]

*pure jealousy from my side*

And now don't start complaining about it being too quiet or too spacey!
By the way was your flight sold out and what did you pay if I may ask?

No worries, it was no more expensive than the 777 flight, I'd say the A380 is the preferred option because it was over 90% full. 777 had quite a few empty rows.

So in essence, this completely disproves the claim some make that theres no demand for A380 capacity, especially with LHR's 3rd runway being ruled out and demand ever rising, I can see the A380/747-8 being popular on routes such as these.

[Kilrah]

777 had quite a few empty rows.

So, technically, you'd better go with the 777 and have an empty row for yourself

[galaxy]

However,mathematicaly,if the A380 is over 90% full as Karl said,it must have more than 50 seats empty ,and that 's a lot of space for yourself.