Since most journos who have scored free flights from airlines on A380s have been given the business or first class experience and written about that (for obvious reasons… airlines want publicity for their immensely profitable premium seats) I thought it would be worth relaying my experience of flying a Qantas A380 in economy recently. (The flight was paid for by another vendor whose conference I was attending, not Qantas. I do write for the Qantas inflight magazine, but they do not give me discount air travel and I do not give them free kicks in my coverage of Qantas in other publications ;-)
I flew the Qantas A380 on an eight hour Singapore to Sydney leg the other day and was immensely impressed. In fact, it's such a comfortable ride compared to a 747 that I will certainly be actively looking for A380 routes on future international trips, and I reckon I'd be prepared to pay 30% more on the ticket cost of an equivalent 747 route.
Some initial thoughts on what is so great about the Qantas A380 after the jump. (PS that's the awesome "tail cam" view on the inflight entertainment pictured above.)
