The president of Emirates says passengers will never again be as comfortable as they have been aboard the enormous discontinued Airbus A380

Sadly the glamour days of air travel are long gone. I think we all now regard planes as nothing much more than buses that fly unless we can afford to fly in ‘proper’ First class, or Residence Class.

The A380 was the most comfortable plane I’ve even flown in, so quiet and smooth, in spite of the antiquated interior BA equipped them with. That said, transatlantic on a Norwegian 787 wasn’t exactly slumming it and I’m curious as to what the 777x is going to be like. The 777 is a nice stable, fairly quiet plane (except BA!) so we will see.

I do lament the passing of the A380 and 747 though. As a passenger it did feel different getting on those planes.

Yes...very sad

I am so happy that I had several opportunities on Emirates and Lufthansa to fly as a passenger with this legend. It is a fantastic airplane and proably very best airplane ever. The last time was just on 15th March 2020 with Emirates on propably one of the last scheduled flights out of Dubai to Frankfurt. In terms of passenger experience in ecconomy class there is a huge gap between A380 and anything else.
I can't understand why all of them should be scrapped as I personally would pay more (I already did in the past) if I had the choice between A380 and any other airplane.
If I could have a wish - please don't let them die.

Fully agree, 747 is great but for the passenger the A380 will be the most comfortable airplane ever built! Hope to catch another in Emirates before the sad day comes :(

true dat

I only flew, 4 times on the Singapore SIA Airline, on Economy! Not only it was very comfortable and silent, but I was very surprized how manoeuvrable it was, for such a big airplane! the best Airplane I've ever flown, of many many! Incomparable to anything else! Mind you, I've never tried the A-350....

I have flown in SIN, Emirates and Qantas A380s all except the first time in Business class. Economy sure is tight, I am just on 6Ft. and found it a long trip from Melbourne to Heathrow. I enjoy watching them land and take off from my home near MEL. It's a shame so many are going into the Mojave desert, I hope most of them will come back into service some day soon.

learn from your mistakes

Saw many people commenting that if they had the choice of a standard airliner flight and a slightly more expensive and/or inconvenient A380 flight, they would go with the A380... which makes me still a bit confused how airlines couldn't make that aircraft work (pre-Corona of course).

I always liked how quiet the 380 is, especially on the upper deck. Mind you, I only flew economy the 6 times I was on that aircraft, but most of the time I was lucky to take the Lufthansa plane that had the rear part of the upper deck converted from business to a small and cozy economy section, it was only about 5 rows if I recall well. All that being said, I was unpleasantly surprised by how much one can feel the turbulence when up and in the back; I always figured such a huge plane must be hugely stable, but being so far from the center of gravity in two directions actually made things much worse. One particular flight from Beijing to Frankfurt was one looooong non stop shake, but also another from Seoul to New York where I sat on the lower deck and not so far behind. For me the most stable planes have always been the 777.