First Korean Air A380 peeks out in Toulouse
Saturday, February 05, 2011
Blog readers will know that I love the A380 SuperJumbo currently in service with 5 airlines:
Showing its colours at Toulouse is the Airbus A380 belonging to the sixth airline to have it, Korean Air Lines. This is a company that I have never flown because of their dubious safety record (wikipedia: Korean Air had a relatively high accident rate between 1970 and 1999, during which time it wrote off 16 aircraft in serious incidents and accidents with the loss of 700 lives). Korean Air is a founding partner airline of SkyTeam, the world's second largest airline alliance along with Air France-KLM and Delta. It is one of only nine airlines to fly to every inhabited continent.
Korean will start flying A380s in May, 2011 to Japan and East Asia. This will be followed by Korean's US and European routes in August, 2011. Korean Air have said they will have five A380s by the end of 2011 and then another five from 2012 to 2014
Korean Air's A380 will only have 407 seats in total on board. This is the least number of seats out of all the airlines (Qantas 450, Singapore 471, Emirates 489/517, Air France 516/538, Lufthansa 526).
Of those seats Korean will have 12 KOSMO First Class seats and 301 economy seats on the lower deck. On the upper deck will be 94 Prestige (Business class seats) which will have to be a very spacious affair. No other carrier has done this.
China Southern will also add A380s in 2011 with Thai, Malaysian and Qatar flying them in 2012
- Air France
- Emirates (I flew their A380 in 2010 and loved it)
- Lufthansa (hope to fly this in July)
- Qantas (see the blog post about my 2010 fabulous A380 flight)
- Singapore Airlines (flown 2010)
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| Photo Credit David Barrie |
Korean will start flying A380s in May, 2011 to Japan and East Asia. This will be followed by Korean's US and European routes in August, 2011. Korean Air have said they will have five A380s by the end of 2011 and then another five from 2012 to 2014
Korean Air's A380 will only have 407 seats in total on board. This is the least number of seats out of all the airlines (Qantas 450, Singapore 471, Emirates 489/517, Air France 516/538, Lufthansa 526).
Of those seats Korean will have 12 KOSMO First Class seats and 301 economy seats on the lower deck. On the upper deck will be 94 Prestige (Business class seats) which will have to be a very spacious affair. No other carrier has done this.
China Southern will also add A380s in 2011 with Thai, Malaysian and Qatar flying them in 2012
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