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Looks great! Hope to fly in one of these some time in the next 12 months!

2009-01-11: Update - We have booked... Later this year we will be on the Qantas A380 from Los Angeles to Sydney. Qantas recently had some great discounts of flights later this year, so we jumped right in and bought some tickets.

Now we just hope they do not switch the equipment for scheduled flights. Though we do love flying on the Boeing 747s.

2009-10-29 : Update2 - We did it. Just over a week ago we travelled LAX->Sydney on this monster. Well, monster as in LARGE, not monster as in horrible. It was a great trip... as great as a 14 hour non-stop flight can be. The seats seem to have more space than we usually get on a Qantas B747. That is a plus.  The flight was smooth and quiet (We had seats near the from of cattle class, just ahead of the wing and engines).

The week before we flew, we had toured the Boeing factory just north of Seattle. I felt like a Boeing traitor flying on a Airbus.

Would I fly an A380 again? Yes. But I still feel safer in a B747.

John.

Another Update: 2010-05-02

Since my previous posting here, my wife and I have now flown several times across the Pacific between Los Angeles and Australia. We now prefer the A380 because of the (little) extra seating space on this plane. I doubt the seats are more widely spaced, but they are better designed than those on the B747. They take up less of the passenger's space as they are a little thinner. Perhaps this is only an inch, but on a 14 hour non-stop flight you want all the space you can get. Oh to travel business class again. Perhaps next year! Those seats are just marvelous.

John