Traveling to Toulouse to welcome Thai Airways' newest A380 aircraft
A shiny new Thai Airways Airbus A380-800
I recently had the chance to accompany to the Southern French city of Toulouse a delegation that had traveled all the way from Thailand to visit Airbus' facilities.
After visiting Airbus' corporate facilities, its cabin interior design center, an A380 mock-up, walking through the A380 final assembly line and getting on-board of a weird-looking Beluga cargo aircraft, we headed to Airbus' Aircraft Delivery Center for the final stop on our intense itinerary: a private visit to Thai Airways' fifth Airbus A380-800, which was being readied before of its handover to its new owner.
Regular readers of this blog might remember this was not my first visit to Airbus' Aircraft Delivery Center, but I can not emphasize enough what an amazing experience it is for an aviation enthusiast to be there.
What follows is a photographic summary of the visit to Thai Airways' newest A380:
Colleagues covering the Airbus visit for Thai media. Wearing the hat is Thai TV host and writer Patcharasri Benjamasi (aka @Kalamare)
A close-up of the A380 landing gear
Thai Airways' logo from an unusual angle
You can get an idea of the scale of the A380 in this picture
Night club decoration? No! those are the new generation overhead bins on-board!
First class area
Choose your seat! (at the business class area)
Economy class
Besides getting to see Thao's A380, the delivery center offers also great views of Toulouse-Blagnac airport runways. We could spot several interesting aircraft while there, including the Beluga.
I could not avoid Instagraming this one!
Group photo with Thai media, Airbus and Thai Airways representatives!