Asiana Airlines, one of South Korea’s two major airlines, received its first Airbus A380 jumbo jet Monday, making the carrier the 11th operator of the world’s largest aircraft.
The double-deck plane is the world’s largest commercial aircraft flying today. It was delivered to the airline’s chairman, Park Sam Koo, by Airbus CEO Fabrice Brégier, in Toulouse, France.
Asiana has five additional A380s on order. Each is powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines. The planes are in a being delivered in a three-class configuration, with a total capacity of 495 passengers. There are 12 first-class First Suites, 66 fully lie-flat business-class seats in Business Samarium, and 417 seats in coach. ]
The airline is set to get familiar with these routes, from Seoul to Tokyo, Hong Kong and Bangkok, and will then deploy it the Seoul-Los Angeles route.
The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine plane that had its first flight in 2005 and entered commercial service in October 2007. A typical configuration is 525 seats and the plane can hold as many as 853 in an all-coach configuration.
Asiana, which has an all-Airbus fleet, also has 30 of the new Airbus A350 XWB jets on order. It currently operates A330 and A320 planes on its routes.
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