Qatar's A380 makes maiden flight to completions centre
Qatar Airways' first A380 took off from Toulouse this morning on its maiden flight to Hamburg where the aircraft will be fitted with its cabin before being painted.
The Doha based carrier has firm orders for ten A380s and will become the eleventh airline to operate A380 when it takes delivery of this aircraft in 2014.
Since first entering service in 2007, 108 A380s are in operation and have accumulated over one million flight hours in more than 120,000 commercial flights. To date 44 million passengers have flown on board an A380.
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