How To Fly On the Airbus A380
If you wish to try out the new Airbus A380 as a passenger you have the following options:
Singapore Airlines - the first airline to fly the A380 commercially, from Singapore to Sydney, Australia. They currently have 4 A380 aircraft in service deployed on various routes:
Singapore to Sydney - Flight SQ 221
Sydney - Singapore Flight SQ 222
London Heathrow to Singapore Flights SQ 317 / SQ 321
Singapore to London Heathrow Flights SQ 318 / SQ 322
Singapore to Tokyo Flight SQ 638
Tokyo to Singapore Flight SQ 637
This week (2nd to 8th Aug) one of the A380s has been flying on the Singapore - Beijing route ahead of the Olympic Games.
Emirates - On 1st August Emirates flew its inaugural A380 service from Dubai DXB to New York JFK. From 8th August they will fly the route as follows:
DXB to JFK Flight EK 201 (Sun / Wed / Fri)
JFK to DXB Flight EK 202 (Sun / Wed / Fri)
Emirates plans to fly the A380 on the Dubai to London Heathrow route from December 2008 and Dubai - Sydney - Auckland from February 2009.
Qantas - Are awaiting delivery of their first A380. They begin service on October 20th 2008 with flight QF 93 from Melbourne to Los Angeles. On October 24th, flight QF 11 will fly from Sydney to Los Angeles. These flights can be booked on Qantas’ website.
Qantas will deploy the A380 on its Sydney to London backbone route in 2009.
If you are based in Sydney you will be spoilt for choice on A380 options.
Next year will also see A380 deliveries to Air France and Lufthansa.