New Delhi:Â Singapore Airlines will become the first airline to start commercial operations of the world’s largest passenger aircraft Airbus 380 in India on Friday. The airline will fly the A380 daily from Mumbai and Delhi. It is scheduled to land in Delhi after 8 pm on Friday evening.
The government had given its approval to the A380 operations in January. This configuration of the super jumbo will have 471 seats, including 12 suites, 60 Business and 399 Economy class seats.
An Economy class ticket for the Airbus will set you back by Rs 30,000, the Business class ticket will cost twice more and the suites will be priced at Rs 2 lakh each.
Meanwhile, Gulf carrier Emirates on Wednesday also announced the launch of its A380 operations between Mumbai and Dubai from July 21 adding a capacity of 2,127 seats per week in each direction.
It will be the second global carrier after Singapore Airlines to start its super jumbo services. Emirates would launch daily services of the double-decker Airbus A380 aircraft between Dubai and Mumbai, a spokesperson for the Gulf carrier said.
The Airbus A380 features:
– Double deck wide body
– Engines: 4
– Range: 15,700 kilometre
– Seating: 525 people in a typical three class configuration
– First flight: 27 April 2005
– First commercial service: October 2007 with Singapore Airlines
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