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Qantas Gets More Seats, Just When They Don't Need Them

Where: Australia
December 17, 2008 at 9:30 AM | by | Comments (0)

Back when Qantas first put an order in for some super-sized A380s, they probably saw the grand new planes arriving at the height of a boom in travel to Australia.

Oops. These days Qantas is doing half-price deals to get passengers to fill up its long haul routes--and might be secretly wishing the new A380 they just received in France didn't exist. The airline's second A380 will fly the Melbourne to Los Angeles route starting from December 22.

A third A380 should join the Qantas ranks just after Christmas to fly the Melbourne-Singapore-London route. Qantas should have had a dozen A380s by now if production had run according to schedule, but that would probably just mean even more empty seats. Maybe Qantas has flown into one of those clouds with a silver lining after all.

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