Qantas welcomes back first refurbished Airbus A380 into service
Qantas has welcomed back its first Airbus A380 featuring a refurbished cabin including new business class seats, a new lounge on the upper deck and more premium seating.
The A380 VH-OQK, which had been in Dresden, Germany since the middle of July, returned to service on September 30 when it operated the QF 2 from London Heathrow to Sydney via Singapore.
After arriving in Sydney on Wednesday morning, the aircraft was presented to media and invited guests in Hangar 96 at Qantas’s Mascot jet base.
In addition to new business seats that were similar to what was already on Qantas’s Airbus A330 and Boeing 787-9 fleet, the reconfigured A380s also had a higher number of premium seats.
While the total number of seats has been increased by one to 485, the split between the four cabin classes has changed.
First class was unchanged at 14 seats, while the business cabin has been expanded to 70 seats, from 64 in the old configuration.
There was a big increase in premium economy from 35 to 60 seats, while the economy cabin was being cut by 30 seats to 341 seats.
The upper deck has been reconfigured to only business and premium economy cabins, while first and economy will be on the lower deck.
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