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Originally Posted by dawsey
Haven't got any pics to show how tight they have squeezed in the economy class seating have you? I bet its still cramped for anyone around 6ft tall.
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I recently went on a tour of the Airbus facility in Toulouse and saw the Singapore Airlines 380 in the hanger. On the tour you don't actually get to go onto the A380 or even get close to it (viewing window from the top of the hanger) but these are some big airplanes. They paint the tail of each A380 with the purchasing airline's colors so you can easily identify which one is which - but only the tail. The rest gets painted when it's completed so most of them look kind of pastel greenish. See them flying around all the time when I'm in Toulouse. The first few times it flies past you rush to the window to take a look, after a while it's just another Airbus plane flying around. The cool one is the Beluga which was designed to carry the parts of the aircraft to the Toulouse factory.
They have a few promo pics they show you, and the picture of economy class (like the standard configuration) came up -- my friend and I just looked at each other like, oh my god talk about cattle class! yikes! But as you say, each airline picks their own configuration, etc etc so I think it will be pretty nice in the end.
Cheers, Robaht