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Qantas A380 Takes Off, Flies Just Like the Other Ones

In the ongoing saga of the big A380 super-jumbos, another historical milestone has just occurred with Aussie airline Qantas making its first A380 flight.

The Qantas A380 flew from Melbourne to Los Angeles where it was greeted with plenty of excitement--along with was-an-Aussie Olivia Newton-John and sometime pilot, sometime actor John Travolta.

Heaps of people were keen to be on that first flight, and one of them was Perth travel agent Luke Chittock who also wrangled a seat on the first Singapore Airlines A380 flight and the first Emirates one, too. But reports say that when journos asked him how the flight was, he wasn't too impressed: "It's all about the same now."

We're still waiting for our first A380 flight but now we're going to try to be as cool as Luke Chittock when we get there. It's just another plane.

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