The first commercial flight on the new Airbus A380 aircraft has been scheduled for October 25, 2007. The first carrier to fly the super-jumbo will be Singapore Airlines. Flight SQ380 will depart Singapore for Sydney and it will seat 471 passengers in three classes. The airline’s first of 19 ordered A380s is starting services 10 days after it takes delivery. So far, as much as fourteen airlines, including Emirates, Qatar Airways, Virgin, Air France and Qantas, have ordered 173 A380 aircrafts in total.
