My friend Kévin happened to be at Dulles on Monday to witness the event and was kind enough to share some pictures with me. Look how tiny the people look next to the giant plane! I can’t wait to get on one of those A380!!!
In other Air France news, the airline is also marking the 25th anniversary of its San Francisco-Paris route by upgrading travelers from a tiny bity regular Boeing to a super jumbo A380 from June 6 to September 2011. Afterwards, back to the small plane SanFran so book that summer vacation now!! Or I guess, after that date, you can still fly to Frankfurt on Lufthansa’s A380 planes… but why would you want to go Germany when you can go to France?? *
* this last sentence is actually only kind of funny if you know that I’m flying to Frankfurt soon on Lufthansa – though not on an A380 plane. This will be my first “trip” to my German neighbour, though I put trip in quotation marks because I won’t actually be leaving the airport. Germany is only a quick pit stop en route to another rather exciting European destination where I will be spending my summer vacation. But more on that later…
I took the A380 from Paris to New York in January. There are a lot more people than usual so you have to wait for hours in line for your passport and then to get your luggage. But it's still very exciting to travel on it; the crew really made us feel like something exceptional was happening!