Qatar Airways’ first Airbus A380 took off from Toulouse, France, on its maiden flight to Hamburg, Germany, where the aircraft will be fitted with its cabin before being painted.
The Doha, Qatar-based carrier has firm orders for ten A380s and will become the eleventh airline to join the club of A380 operators when it takes delivery of this aircraft in 2014.
Since first entering service in 2007, 108 A380s are in operation with ten carriers and have accumulated over one million flight hours in more than 120,000 commercial flights. To date, 44 million passengers have flown on board an A380.
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