iscoverTo mark the 10th anniversary of the delivery of the first Qantas A380 in September 2008, today’s Throwback Thursday (TBT) features are republished from our November 2008 issue’s indepth coverage of the arrival of the first of the Flying Kangaroo’s super jumbos.
Years of marketing hype from Airbus, the double beds on Singapore Airlines’s A380 and Emirates’s hugely successful A380 business class bar sharpened the senses of the media and guests for the first inspection of the finished Qantas A380 product.
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Ovtraveller
says:It is easy to look back and judge the design and layout of every plane designed since the B747. I much prefer to look at the latest improvement in Qantas’s A380 and put the sliderule over that from a pax perspective. Forget first class …nice , but nothing fancy unlike the Emirates etc. J class improved with the ‘new’ business class suite, love it and look forward to the next time for its comfort. PE…mmm for me only on a short less than four hour trip. Never again across the Pacific if I can help it, unless on a front bulk head where the leg room is superior.Y…..pass unless on the Melbourne to Sydney run, which is unlikely. Evaluation: little improvement for the bulk of Pax in Y. PEpax a marginal improvement. Winners: all good folk travelling in J with more seat, better seats and that 1-2-1 layout.