emirates airlines planes

Emirates doesn’t have First Class, they offer Private Suites. Yes first class isn’t a very large lay flat seat anymore - its a complete cabin - with a door - you don’t have to interact with anyone for the entire fight if that’s what you want. There is also an exclusive, first class only, lounge with mood lighting no less, if you do want to talk to humans. If you are feeling like pushing your boundaries than you can also choose to mingle with the hoi-polloi in the upper-level business class lounge

Emirates first class suites look like a mini-cruise ship cabin; complete with sliding door, a personal mini-bar, vanity table, mirror and wardrobe. Faux woodgrain features prominently in the interior design. In contrast Qantas’s First class offering is - well a bit minimal on the design front really. And its not completely private, and the TV is smaller, and there’s no shower, and there’s no exclusive 1st class on-board lounge, and - and this one is a surprising omission - there is no private mini-bar - you will have to call the help for a drink!

Airbus A380 planes

Once it enters service, the A380 will become the world's largest airliner and at least the second largest plane. Additional stretched models are also planned, and one of these will almost surely supersede the An-225 to take the official title as world's largest plane.

Your question also mentions two other classic aircraft that were certainly enormous by any measure. Unfortunately, both proved to be disastrous follies that were great embarrassments to their proponents. The Spruce Goose, officially known as the Hughes H-4 Hercules, was the brainchild of flamboyant billionaire Howard Hughes.

The aircraft had originally been ordered by the US government during World War II as a giant cargo plane ferrying up to 750 armed troops or two 30-ton tanks. As the war concluded, Hughes believed he could adapt the massive plane to revolutionize long-distance transportation in the fledgling airline and air cargo industires.

His creation was the world's largest plane at the time and is still the largest flying boat ever built with a maximum takeoff weight of 400,000 lb (180,000 kg). The enormous craft also holds records for the largest wingspan at 319 ft 11 in (97.5 m), tallest airplane at 79 ft 3 3/8 in (24.2 m), and the largest aircraft ever made from wood.

Airbus A380 Plane

You've been reading about it, you've been hearing about it, and now it's finally happened: those two tickets up for auction for a luxury suite (plus all kinds of other goodies) on the maiden voyage of the Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 have finally sold -- for $100,000. That sounds like a lot of money to pay for a flight from Singapore to Sydney, but of course it's on an Airbus, it includes a lot of other perks, and that's actually a lot less than what the airline was hoping to get for charity (the "Buy it now" was $380,000).

What a bargain!Ask and you shall receive! Well, little by little at least. Last month Deidre wished for pictures of something other than the dining room of the Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 (as glorious as it may be) and today we have them. They might not be of the whirlpool, master bedroom suite, or the game room, but we do have a sketch of the desert-themed lounge and some very glamorous-looking photos of the grand entrance and VIP lounge.