{"id":163951,"date":"2016-12-28T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turkeyalwan.net\/?p=163951"},"modified":"2019-01-15T14:21:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T13:21:35","slug":"flight-review-qantas-a380-first-class-from-dubai-to-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turkeyalwan.net\/2016\/12\/28\/flight-review-qantas-a380-first-class-from-dubai-to-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Qantas A380 First Class from Dubai to London"},"content":{"rendered":"
Wednesday newsletters<\/a>\u00a0always feature a\u00a0hotel<\/a>\u00a0and\/or\u00a0flight<\/a>\u00a0review.<\/p>\n Last October, I enjoyed\u00a0a fabulous\u00a0holiday in the Seychelles<\/a>, the legendary island\u00a0archipelago of exceptional tropical beauty in the Indian Ocean. You can read my trip reports here:<\/p>\n On November 1st 2016,\u00a0I flew First Class in an Airbus A380 of Qantas<\/a>\u00a0from Dubai International Airport\u00a0(DXB) in the United Arab Emirates to London Heathrow Airport (LHR) in\u00a0the UK. This was the last leg of my Seychelles holiday (the flight from Mahe to Dubai was on an Emirates B777). Qantas – the flag carrier of Australia – is one of the airlines that I admire the most. Although I am not sure where my fascination with the airline comes from, it probably has to do with the fact that it’s\u00a0the\u00a0third oldest airline in the world (after\u00a0KLM\u00a0and\u00a0Avianca) and that is has a reputation for being the safest airline in the world. Qantas hasn’t had a fatal crash during the entire jet area (which began in 1951), a reputation which was glorified in the\u00a01988 blockbuster Rain Man, when Dustin Hoffman\u2019s character refused to get on a flight unless it was Qantas because of the airline’s stellar safety record.<\/p>\n The Australian carrier\u00a0was one of the first A380 customers, and back in 2008, it\u00a0placed an order for 20 of the megaplanes.\u00a0Currently Qantas has 12 A380s in its fleet and mainly deploys them on the London, Dubai, Hong Kong, and USA routes. It doesn’t want its remaining 8 A380s on order anymore, since its current jumbo fleet is enough to meet the existing passenger demand.\u00a0The particular plane I flew on was an Airbus A380-800 with registration number VH-OQI, nicknamed ‘David Warren’ after the inventor of the flight date recorder and cockpit voice recorder. My experience onboard the Qantas A380 was awesome: the hard product is slightly\u00a0inferior to the Middle East A380 First Class cabins but the cheerful and courteous cabin crew was the best I ever encountered in all my years of flying.<\/p>\n Qantas features in my top 10 lists of the\u00a0best Business Class amenity kits in the sky<\/a>\u00a0and my most phenomenal travel experiences of 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n In this review (more information & photos below my Youtube clip &\u00a0slideshow):<\/p>\n\n
\nToday (28 December, 2016): Trip report: Qantas A380 First Class from Dubai to London.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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