Traveller's tale
Recently, I came home from USA, and on the return flight, flew from London to Dubai (About eight hour night flight) on the new Emirates Airbus A380.
Outwardly, this full length double decker four engined plane, appears shorter than the Boeing 747; the only aircraft which has a partial double deck. However, this was more an optical illusion; as the fat A380, two storied plane, appeared so, compared to the 747, at first glance when seen at a distance from the airport gallery!
Inside, the whole upper floor had First and Business class cabins with around 180 seats in all (First and Business Class). Downstairs was all Economy class with around 340 . The two floors were totally separate , and boarding was through separate boarding gates for the two floors of the aircraft.
Compared to the 747, which had a lower head room, and a rather cramped first floor hunch-backed cabin; the A380 had rather more than enough head room, like the Boeing 777 in which I flew from Miami to London. The seat layout in the business and first class was one seat at the two sides, and two seats alongside in the centre row, with isles on either side of the centre row of seats.
During normal cruising flight the noise was totally absent in the upper deck! This sums up my personal experience of flying on board the newly introduced A380 passenger aircraft.
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