The Global Traveller has flown the Airbus A380 on Qantas, Emirates, and Singapore. I still haven’t flown it at all. So he makes me quite jealous when he offers his comparison of the three A380 first class products. And at the same time, I appreciate his bringing the compare and contrast together in one place.
Upshot is that Qantas isn’t a true suite with doors, and is staffed by Qantas crew, but is otherwise an excellent hard product. Emirates is gimmicky as always, but give me the onboard showers gimmick any day! And Singapore is, well, Singapore — they’re almost as good as they think they are!
If you’re curious about the A380, or about the best in first class products, read the whole thing.
Isn’t the emirates product OFF LINE for the moment, I heard they were only flying 747 and 777 into and out of the USA while their A380 sat around a bit.
Right, for USA. Emirates did fly to JFK for a while but then switched to Toronto instead. There are a number of other Emirates A380 destinations already, with more being added next year.