My First A380 Flight – delays and airline ‘untruths’
It’s taken nearly two years – the first A380 commercial flight was by Singapore Airlines, Singapore-Sydney on 25 October 2007 – but I’ve finally flown on the new double-decker Airbus. There are now 17 of them in operation and when I turned up at Los Angeles to fly home to Melbourne my Qantas flight was on their 3rd A380. The 4th Qantas A380 is due next month.
Halfway across the Pacific on QF94 two days ago
The Qantas A380 (and perhaps others) has one very nice new toy – a tail mounted Skycam which looks down on the aircraft and the earth unfolding below, it’s positively hypnotic. I’ve flown on other aircraft with downward or forward looking cameras, but somehow having the aircraft in the picture looks entirely different. It’s a great view.
Click here to find why I ended up in Sydney not Melbourne.
Once while Travelling: The Lonely Planet Story
