Qantas A380 poised for London-Melbourne services

Qantas has taken delivery of its fifth A380 aircraft, with a sixth to arrive in a few days, allowing the carrier to start A380 services between Melbourne and London via Singapore on January 18.


The A380 will operate one to two flights per week on the route (QF9 on Mondays and Sundays and the return QF10 on Fridays and Saturdays), with regular twice-weekly flights to commence on March 29.


The fifth Qantas A380 is named Lawrence Hargrave, after the inventor of the box kite. The airline’s sixth A380 is named Charles Kingsford-Smith, after Australia’s most famous aviator who made the first trans-Pacific flight from the US to Australia in 1928.