Yes, you read that right. 700 seats.
Transareo – Russia’s 2nd largest airline – will be the first Russian airline to take delivery of Four Airbus A380’s according to airbus.com
Image – Airbus SARL.
Transareo will be planning to operate these aircraft on long-haul routes from Moscow, in a 3 cabin layout seating about 700 passengers.
Whilst Vladimir Putin may not like they’re not “Buying Russian”, the only larger plane that is Russian (or Russian Technology) is the AN-225 (and that’s Ukrainian at a push), and she’s a cargo bird.
Transaero operates 130 routes, and is a co-partner on the London Heathrow-Moscow DME run with British Midland International.
The only other operator who is considering such a mad configuration is Air Austral – who is planning a vision of Dante’s Inferno with 840 seats in an all-economy version of the plane.
If Transaero can make these numbers work, it’ll be interesting – but not my first choice of carrier with that sort of density aboard….
“If Transaero can make these numbers work, it’ll be interesting – but not my first choice of carrier with that sort of density aboard…”
Regardless of their A380 seating configuration, I can’t see a scenario where Transaero is my choice of carrier. 😉
Nor mine to be honest 😉