If you live anywhere near the approach paths to OR Tambo International, look up on Monday morning if you want to see commercial aviation’s biggest creation of the past decade.

Lufthansa is putting an A380 double-decker on the Jo’burg route once a week out of Frankfurt. Along with Air France, this will be the second commercial A380 service to South Africa.

Lufthansa A380s have 526 seats – eight first class seats and 98 business class seats on the upper deck and 420 economy class eats on the lower deck.

Lufthansa claim that the A380 provides “unprecedented comfort and an impressive feeling of space”.

All very good, but the only feeling most pax in steerage are interested is in their bodies after a 12-hour flight. It’s less the “feeling” of space than the actual space that they want. So, this claim needs to be tested.

PHOTO: Lufthansa

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