Air France is planning to auction 380 out of the 538 seats for charity on each of its two inaugural Paris-New York flights on the double-deck Airbus A380 Superjumbo aircraft.

Qantas Airways, the national airline of Australia and the nation’s largest carrier, launched commercial service of its new Airbus A380 Superjumbo, the world’s largest passenger airliner, on October 20, 2008.

Emirates Airline, the largest customer for the A380 superjumbo, will receive the first of its 58 A380 aircraft on order from Airbus’ Hamburg facility on 28th July 2008.

Qantas, the national airline and flag-carrier of Australia, started selling, on June 16, 2008, seats for the first flight on the airline’s new Airbus A380 Superjumbo. Airbus A380 is the world’s largest passenger aircraft.

The phenomenal rise in the prices of fuel is sweeping each and every sector of the aviation, the aircraft-making companies included. Airlines are reining in spending as they face losses that may total $40 billion in 2008.