British Airways releases pictures of the first A380 in full livery

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Last month I posted about BA’s new promotional video, showing you what you can expect on its new A380’s.

(The answer, unfortunately, is ‘not much’ …. at least, nothing radical.)

The first British Airways A380 has just left the Airbus paint shop in Hamburg and BA has released a few pictures. The plane is due to be handed over to BA in July, with Los Angeles being the first route from October. Hong Kong will follow in November.

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Less excitingly, here is a reminder of the seating plan:

The only novel thing to watch out for, apart from the rather snazzy spiral staircase, is the 2 x 3 x 2 layout in Club World, which will see a solo middle seat appear for the first time.

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