Airbus A380 experience

I'm happy to accept any glass of champagne I'm offered :)

Two thirds of my A380 flights were in economy.

And the prize for pretentious post of the month goes to.....

The A380 economy seat is an inch wider than all the other aircraft you are looking at.

The VC-10 was better: quieter, faster more seat room, but it's really hard to find a seat on one these days.

You didn't check out those seats obviously! Yes they are window seats, but because of emergency slide attached to door in emergency exit row in front there is NO seat in front of you, which actually means you can stand up and scooch forward to get out of your seat without asking anyone else to move.

Here's a pic I found online:

Wowza. When I flew (pre covid) it was a standard seat.

Flew Emirates, Qatar and Lufthansa A380's. Emirates A380's are probably the most comfortable economy class seats I have flown in long haul. A380 is surprisingly a very quiet aircraft. Lufthansa was at the back of the upper deck where there's a small economy class section. This was actually pretty cosy with the small cabin and the seats were pretty good too though IFE has nothing on EK's IFE offer.. Qatar A380 was alright though I do prefer Doha for transiting over DXB, but would still put up transiting through DXB flying EK double deckers.

Not my intention at all – would have thought it was a fairly standard observation among weary travellers who have lost the appreciation for any ‘luxury’ element of getting on a plane.. one person joked back which had made me think the comment landed in the spirit it was intended!

Collecting Avios & building Oneworld status would probably be more beneficial to the OP longer term than selecting a route based on one leg of the journey being on a particular aircraft (and starting skywards miles).

I appreciate he/she would miss out on a marginally more comfortable seat experience. However, unless a nervous flyer / travelling with young children / elderly etc, I would not prioritise the flying experience of an A380 over route, connection, product, price, memberships. Let’s not kid ourselves that he/she will arrive in Australia feeling anything other than a bit wrecked and delighted to be no longer on it, rather than paying particular attention to the smoothness of its landing.

There is still plenty of time to experience an A380 if it’s something to tick off a list. Based on Emirates previously announced projections of service life, they could run their last A380 delivered in Dec 2021 as far out as 2033. BA has recently brought all of theirs back into operation. Lufthansa is taking theirs out of storage for next Summer.

I consistently fly Singapore Airlines (due to my location) and have never flown with Qatar, however, my experience of the Emirates product and service has been hit & miss in comparison to Singapore Airlines being exceptional each & every time – across all classes. For Qatar to have now overtaken SA on Skytrax and others ‘Airline of the Year’ several times is something of note for me. 

We are hoping to bring the kids in 2 years out to Vietnam/Laos/Thailand etc and I'd love to get on the A380 at least once before they're grounded.

Is there a way of using skyscanner to find out what carriers/routes fly A380s? We'd be happy landing in Bangkok, KL, Vietnam (any) or Singapore if it meant getting to fly on one.

You won't be able to reliably know the aircraft type until approx 6 months before departure.

Flew on the Qatar A380 from BKK to DOH last weekend. It really feels so much spacious then other planes, especially the 787 which I flew on the DOH - DUB leg. I've also flown on the Emirates A380 previouslt, there's nothing between them really, in economy anyway.