The Oasis of the Seas, the world’s biggest cruise ship, will set off on her maiden voyage on November 30.

The vessel can carry 6 296 passengers who are looked after by 2 195 crew. That’s 8 491 souls on board.

Here is a superb graphic of the ship and its size relative to the Titanic (it’s unfortunate that passenger ships are so often compared to the Titanic, but there you go) and an Airbus A380.

See how TINY the A380 is compared to the boat? Now think about this: just 10 A380s would be needed to carry all the people on the Oasis of the Seas, if the aircraft were configured like French airline Air Austral plans to do.

Like I said yesterday, the new immigrant ships are aircraft …

PHOTO: Oasis of the Seas heads to sea on its trials. Picture courtesy of Royal Caribbean International

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