Super jumbo A-380 lands in New Delhi

New Delhi: The world's largest passenger aircraft A-380 touched down for the first time in India on Sunday to mark the second anniversary celebrations of Kingfisher Airlines.
This fully double decor aircraft, which landed at 10.50 a.m., has a passenger capacity of 850 seats in all economy configurations but in three classes it has the capacity to carry about 550 passengers.
Kingfisher Airlines has ordered five A-380 planes which has a list price of over 300 million dollars per aircraft. Super jumbo aircraft is powered by four Trent engine manufactured by Rolls Royce and can fly 15,000 kilometres non-stop.During its India visit, it would be taking some VIPs on a flight of fancy over Delhi and on Tuesday it will fly off to Mumbai.Airports Authority of India and advance teams of Airbus Industrie had been on the job in Delhi to prepare for various facilities including navigation of the super jumbo plane in the country which takes three Boeing 737 or Airbus 320 space.
This 80 feet tall aircraft will be fly flying off from Mumbai on May 9.
The wingspan of an A320 aircraft is 34.1 metres while A380 is 79.8 metres. The turnaround time of this world's largest plane is 90 minutes (with over 500 passengers).
06/05/07 PTI/Daily News & Analysis

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