Qantas to Take Delivery of First A380 in September 2008
Posted on: Friday, 8 August 2008, 12:00 CDT
Australian airline Qantas has announced that it will take delivery of its first A380 aircraft on September 19, 2008.
John Borghetti, executive general manager of Qantas, said: "The airline would welcome its first A380 aircraft into the Qantas fleet at a ceremony at Airbus's Toulouse factory and fly it via Singapore to Sydney, where it will land on September 21, 2008. This is the first of 20 A380s to join the Qantas fleet, with a total of three being delivered by the end of 2008."
Mr Borghetti reconfirmed that Qantas would launch its first A380 commercial passenger service from Melbourne to Los Angeles on October 20, 2008, and begin its first Sydney-Los Angeles A380 service on October 24, 2008.
Source: Datamonitor
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