Delivered to Malaysia Airlines on March 29th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lOv8pk55J8

Wow. Already 100 of them?

2% of the fleet were taxiing one behind another at LAX on Wednesday

In Frankfurt, they built a whole terminal for A380s. The 747-400s parked in between looked kind of small (the 320s taxiing past the terminal looked like toys).

Florian

I often fly out of Frankfurt. I have to agree with your comment; they do make even the 747-800's look small! Interestingly, they use a new call sign prefix. Instead of being a "Heavy" there are referred to as a "Super".

The 747-800 was referred to as a Super during testing and we had to use 10 miles separation. The A380 had the same rules and is still called Super. In the FAA's continuing push to make wake turbulence separation as difficult as possible we now have 6 weight classes proposed. Small, Small plus, Large, B757, Heavy and Super. Right now only the A380 series and the Antonov 225 are in the Super category. This new system started in Memphis and is supposed to spread nationwide but I haven't heard anything about it lately at work. Here's a link to the memo:

http://tinyurl.com/d3x535x

Fly into Dubai and they are wall to wall in Emirates Livery. I think they have about 40 of them from what I recall reading and plan on a fleet of 90 when they are done buying. If you have not flown in one give yourself a treat and go a long way in business class. It is by far the best I have ever flown in 35 years of flying around the World.

Have a great time