A little over 7 months separate its inaugural flight from the first commercial flight. While the first one was a trans-Atlantic voyage from Toulouse to Los Angeles, the second one today is across the Indian Ocean. Well, the story is about the A380.
Singapore Airlines becomes the first company to fly the giant A380 on its maiden commercial journey from the nation-state to Sydney. Today is historic because never before such a huge airplane of the size equivalent to 8-storey building in height and an entire football field in width has flown with passenger traffic.
Though Singapore Airlines claims the prestigious ‘first-flyer’ post, many other airline companies are waiting in the wings to start theirs. One hears our very own Vijay Mallya is one of the famed customers of A380, but reports say he is in a very long queue and can only receive his order sometime in 2012.
A stirring time ahead, don’t you think?
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