Qantas to receive A380.

Australia's Qantas Airways is to take delivery of its first Airbus A380 today, making it the third airline to induct the superjumbo to there fleet after launch customer Singapore Airlines and recently Gulf carrier, Emirates.

A Qantas spokesman said it will ''welcome its first A380 aircraft into the Qantas fleet at a ceremony at the Airbus factory in Toulouse", It will fly to Sydney via Singapore, It is due to land on Sunday morning the 21st of September.

Qantas will put the first A380 into service on October the 20th, And it will be flying between Melbourne and Los Angeles, and its first Sydney-Los Angeles service on 24 October. Services from Sydney to London via Singapore will commence from early 2009. Qantas has 20 A380s on order, three of which are supposed to be delivered by the end of 2008, However Airbus have had some unexpected delays once again.

Qantas had said that laptop power will be available in every seat of its new Airbus A380s, Which will also include standard economy class. It had also said that it would offer wireless Internet throughout the A380, as well as web and email access via seat-back inflight entertainment systems.

Qantas had built a reputation for excellence in safety, operational reliability, engineering and maintenance, and customer service, Qantas was regarded as one of the worlds leading long distance airlines, However recent maintenance problems and close calls have damaged there reputation with several problems over the past 2 months.