A380 arrives at Miami

Just 12 months after its introduction into service Miami has become Lufthansa’s latest Airbus A380 destination, the aircraft making its first landing last Friday with a welcome worthy of a Concorde inaugural at its best.  Large crowds lined the roads around the airport and traffic stopped on the Freeway parallel to the landing runway.  Miami made a great fuss about the aircraft with William D. Talbert III, President and CEO of the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau, saying the Germany was the city's largest incoming tourist market.

This was Lufthansa’s seventh A380, the eighth due this week and set for Frankfurt – Singapore in September.  Another arrives in April 2012 with a decision yet to be made on where it will fly to.  The airline has 15 on firm order.

The Lufthansa A380s are configured with the two premier classes, First and Business, on the upper deck.  On offer are First Class suites that the airline is standardising on throughout its long haul fleet, and 98 in Business Class arranged 2+2+2.  Older readers may recall this was the total capacity of the DC9 and BAC 1-11 that for many years formed the core of European airline fleets. The main deck is Economy throughout, 425 seats 3+4+3.  Internal staircases are provided at each end.  AERBT will be featuring Lufthansa and the A380 in subsequent editions. www.lufthansa.com

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