Aηdy
March 18th, 2008, 01:24 PM
The world's largest passenger aircraft today landed at Heathrow on its first commercial flight into Europe and was greeted by a water cannon salute from fire crews.
The Airbus A380, a vast superjumbo double decker, made the journey from Singapore Changi to Heathrow in 13.5 hours, carrying 471 passengers, and landed at Heathrow shortly before 3pm - 15 minutes early.
The passengers, many of whom did not expect to be on the inaugural A380 London flight when they made their flight booking, have received personalised certificates from Singapore Airlines.
One, Mark Barden, 45, from Southampton, flew out to Singapore to be on today’s inaugural flight - then after just eight hours in the Far East, flew back.
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The Airbus A380, a vast superjumbo double decker, made the journey from Singapore Changi to Heathrow in 13.5 hours, carrying 471 passengers, and landed at Heathrow shortly before 3pm - 15 minutes early.
The passengers, many of whom did not expect to be on the inaugural A380 London flight when they made their flight booking, have received personalised certificates from Singapore Airlines.
One, Mark Barden, 45, from Southampton, flew out to Singapore to be on today’s inaugural flight - then after just eight hours in the Far East, flew back.
[Continued... (http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/news/article3574769.ece)]