Look Familiar? First Class Cabin of Qantas Airbus A380 Reminiscent of the U.S.S. Enterprise
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Qantas Airbus A380 (Photo: Qantas)
From the outside, Qantas’ Airbus A360 looks very much like any other superjumbo jet, but the first class cabin has more than just extra leg room, sleeping quarters and pleather seats. It has what some may consider a Trekkie’s earthly dream.
The Daily Mail reports that the interior of the jet, designed by Marc Newson, looks like living quarters on Star Trek’s U.S.S. Enterprise complete LCD touchscreens, real leather seats, sheepskin-covered beds and houseplants:
“At first glance, this may look like the interior of the USS Enterprise, but it’s actually the first class cabin on a Qantas A380, complete with personal suites and centre socializing area,” writes TechEBlog this week.
The central area is provided for flyers to stretch their legs and sit down for a drink.
Each berth even has a dresser for storing clothes — naturally, pyjamas are provided.
There are just 14 berths in the whole cabin.
Flyers are provided with noise-cancelling headphones, and the touchscreen-controlled LCD panels in every berth give access to more than 1,000 different programmes.
Qantas Airbus A380 social area. (Photo via Daily Mail)
TechEBlog has more on the plane:
For those who don’t already know, the Airbus A380 is basically “a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine jet airliner manufactured by the European corporation Airbus, a subsidiary of EADS. It is the world’s largest passenger airliner.”
There are 14 private quarters on the Qantas Airbus A380. (Photo via Daily Mail)
Here’s a personal look at the inside the plan and all the amenities it offers:
Newsom was awarded the Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum for his first class creation. Those in economy class also ride in comfortable style with the cabin also being awarded top honors with the 2009 Australian International Design Award of the Year.
According to the Qantas website, the planes are being introduced progressively with the latest flight schedule being Sydney to Hong Kong beginning Jan. 15. The Qantas planes currently operate between Los Angles and Sydney and Los Angles and Melbourne, among other international destinations.
(Photo via Daily Mail)
The Airbus A380 was introduced to the commercial market in 2007. As of November 2011, there were 243 orders for the plane, 67 of which that have been completed. Earlier this month, the United Arab Emirates became the newest international airline to announce its operation of the A380, which will begin in 2012.
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Comments (88)
dogmeat
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 12:05pmMARYBETHELIZABETH
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:11am
Way to support American business Mr. Beck and theblaze.
AIRBUS is not an American company.
Report Post »Robert in Texas
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 12:14pmUmmm… who said it was an “American Company”? No-one… they were just showing how high tech and uber cool this first class section looks like – its rediculous… my gosh you people are just full of hate for anything that Beck has to say about anything… is there really anything positive that you can say about anything?
I really have to say that I wonder how fullfilling the lives of people who live with all this hate for Conservatives, Beck, The Blaze, The Tea Party – or pretty much ANYTHING that they don’t agree with must be. How about actually learning how to love rather than live a life of hate?
Report Post »CHRISBOLT123
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 12:40pmQuestion: Are you OK with Obama blocking Boeing (an American company) from building a new factory in South Carolina that would create many jobs? You OK with that? Just because its a right to work state…are you OK with that? Go drink the Obama Kool-Aid….Moron
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 1:04pmWow!
Report Post »I can just imagine the jetways required ! Or, the SkyChef trucks (now, semi-tractor trailers?)
The TERMINALS will be massive! (and dedicated) There will have to be multiple jetways and gates for each plane, I would imagine.
Wow… Just WOW!
drphil69
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 1:53pm@BethElizaMary
So therefore it should not be reported in the American media…
What is your point? Just trying to show everyone you are an isolationist?
Report Post »scheduler
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 2:44pmLooks nice and that is all that matters.
http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos
Report Post »skilaxdad
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 3:42pmYes, indeed, tomferrari… jobs, jobs, jobs!
Report Post »Quagaar Warrior
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:46pm~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It’s not American-made which means it’s not Union-made which means it’s of a much higher quality at a lower cost. Since Union-made garbage is of the same low quality as Chinese-made garbage, I choose to buy NON-Union.
Union workers are all a bunch of fat,
U. seless
Report Post »N. on-producers
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O. n
N. ational
S. ocialism!
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GerriDavid
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 9:29pmTo QUAGAAR WARRIOR:
Report Post »Union made does NOT mean it is junk……Just more expensive.
ALL military planes are union made and they are the best in the world.
Grannie4news
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 1:39am@dogmeat: I bet that screen name describes you perfectly troll.
Report Post »RollyBones
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:28amQuagaar,
AirBus is Union. One of the largest multi-country union made products in the world!
Rolly
Report Post »Cousin_of_Marx
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:52amAirbus is not an american company?
I think she knew that, dude.
I believe she was aiming for sarcasm.
Report Post »FoxRules
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 12:02pmWe’ve flown Business, Premium Economy and Economy on the QF A380s and have only had the best of times. Business class is a bit more but if you can afford it, well worth it. However, the new First Class would need a 2nd on our house in order to fly it :) Qantas is about the last of the flying legends left, God Bless um!
Report Post »privatejet
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 11:22amAs most of the CEO or marketing managers make fast travel through a private jet and which yield this to huge profit in their business. http://www.247jet.com/
Report Post »RRFlyer
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 10:19amAre you kidding me? Is this like saying some girl looks like Harry Potter? Come on, everything resembles something else in some way.
Report Post »SAC Trained Killr
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 10:16amPoor, envious, OWS malcontents.Just can’t stand it can you?
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 1:44pmOff topic but did you ever run into
Gen. Jack Ripper
P.O.E.
Thanks for your service
Report Post »From a ground pounder…
TROONORTH
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 9:45amIt was Lt. (pronounced LEF-TENNANT) Commander Montgomery Scott who kept the ship running and saved the day.
It was ‘Seven of Nine’ who kept me running!!!!! I have some suggestions for the flight attendant uniforms . . . . . … . .
Report Post »Workforit
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 2:05pmI think Jerri Ryan as a flight attendant would be the final touch!
Report Post »williaml
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:15pmI like 7 of 9
Report Post »ConservDadASD
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 9:41amWill Borg Airlines be buying this up soon?
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 1:37pmDont know about the Borg
Report Post »But we will have to buy 4 for Obo.
2 for work,and 2 for play…
linearnonlinear
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 9:40amReminds me a lot of Virgins Upper Class who has had similar for 10 years now, but Q does have more room. Kit looks fam. too. Love the Camera in the tail.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 9:09amMary Elizabeth…. Was’nt picked for Dodgeball, she was the fat homely girl, and she is a fat lonely Liberal…. Poor thing .
Report Post »Harry Assenback
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 12:36pmMan would I love to throw a ROCKET to her head but of course in her mind Dodgeball is a repressive sport that only picks on the fat kids.
Report Post »str8blues
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:50amMaryElizabeth ………. How does one get so miserable as yourself? You’re pathetic……and I have a feeling you’re young. Just can’t imagine how one can be so miserable at a young age? Perhaps you need to get laid? It always perks my attitude right up every time! What? What do you mean nobody is willing…….you can’t be that bad. There’s an ass for every saddle. Surely…..SURELY…..at one of your Occupy rallies……there’s got to be someone……ANYONE??????
Report Post »jmcenanly
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:46amWhat happens if they hit turbulence? From what I remember of the five series, Starfleet never put seat belts in any of its vessels
Report Post »lvfreemontst
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:32ammarybethlizebeth____what pretty names to be wasted on a slut—-
Report Post »piper60
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 9:57ambar of soap, coming your way if I had my way.
Report Post »Southernsoul
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:07amI wonder if they will have hot, Vulcan babe, yomen/flight attendants?
Report Post »Skwerl E. Muckenfutch
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 4:12amIf any of the crew is wearing a red jumper….you may want to take a different flight. Nobody wants Ensign Expendable as their wingman
Report Post »Drakkhanlord
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:03amwe had jetpacks in late 50′s…we had hovercraft in the late 40′s…
why are we still flying in a dong with wings…?
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:01amHow many plane tickets did Mr. Beck receive for printing this commercial?
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:05amHow many will it take to make you go away?
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:11amWay to support American business Mr. Beck and theblaze.
I think Quantas made a strategic error. There are very few readers of this website who fly first class. This isn’t a website for the 1%. It is a website for their boot lickers.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:20amAgain, how many tickets will it take for you to fly off to Utopia, dear girl? Careful how you answer, you don’t want to sound like a greedy little 1-percenter. Oh wait, from a global perspective, you ARE a 1-percenter simply by being fortunate enough to live in these here United States! Congratulations! Let your self-loathing begin.
And have a groovy day, little girl. :)
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:30amhey marybeth, i will never be able to fly on this bird but it is interesting to see it.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:40amMarybeth, since you are on here and I do have a pair of boots in need of licking, I have an oprotunity for you….
Report Post »Firecontrollman3
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:42amcapitalism isn’t slavery, it is a way to measure your success and perserverance. it only seems like slavery if you are an idiot who works a dead-end job without trying to advance yourself.
Report Post »nelbert
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 9:24amNow, now. Marbethelizabeth is an intellectual masochist and comes here regularly for a beating.
Report Post »tturner12
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 9:55amI doubt he needs free tickets. Beck has earned the privilege of flying private. You tool.
Report Post »felix
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 9:57amidiot !
Report Post »King Troy
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 10:50ambeck is god to the people on this site. you cant go around talking bad on him lol. they get upset when they hear anything not coming from his mouth.
Report Post »Harry Assenback
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 12:33pmEnvy will keep you from enjoying anything it life Mary. What you fail to realize is the number of jobs that were/are created by this company. That part never matters to a moron like yourself.
Report Post »Drakkhanlord
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:00amwill fly private until the tsa goes away…
Report Post »Lee_in_PA
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:45amI‘ll go if the captain’s name is James T. Kirk and the first officer is Mr. Spock.
Report Post »RichNGadsden
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:00amLooks more like the TNG set. Wouldn’t that be Picard and Riker?
Report Post »Joisey
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:42amThe US alone has enough untapped oil reserves to last 300 years. Shut up with the discredited Paul Erlich theories of fuel shortages. The only reason we have shortages today is because of government bans on drilling.
Report Post »PlowMan
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 12:25pmYou got that right. I’d like to see a story on that here someday.
Report Post »RugDog
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:37amThey all die the same way when it goes down. Like a pile of burning jelly.
Report Post »Athinkerinaseaoflibs
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:36amEven through all pain that Boeing went through with the 787, I still think Boeing made the correct choice. Making something bigger is not innovative. The 787 is truly innovative. Think about it–The 787 is a plastic airplane!
Report Post »corbecket
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 12:15amComposite construction has become more common over the last 20 years, so the 787 is really not a sea change in construction at all. It’s merely more of the same.
Now what‘s really cool about the 787 is that it’s a very electric airplane. Way more than anything else out there right now. Most everything else uses hot bleed air from the engines an leading edges for deicing. Not so for the 787. It’s electric heat on the leading edges. Along with that comes really really big engine driven generators. Much bigger than the 767.
Weren’t we talking about the first class configuration of the A380 though? I’m contributing to “subject creap”, but it’s a lot closer to the subject than some of the political creeps that seem to have chimed in on what started as an aviation thread. Pity. It could have been a lot more fun.
Report Post »Athinkerinaseaoflibs
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:29am@Corbeckett: You are absolutely correct that Composite material has been used on Airplanes for the last 2 decades but this brings it in to the commerical airliner business. That’s my only point. The systems and other electronics are very neat as well. Additionally the creature comfort improvements are going to change the business as well The creature comformfs that I am most excited about are: Higher cabin pressure, more agressive air scrubbers and a higher remixure ratio of the cabin air. The bigger windows are cool too
Report Post »notreally
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:09amThe 707 and 747 started out with perks like this — not as fancy, but lounges, dining rooms, etc. Then these luxuries kind of dissolved over the years and more seats took their place.
Report Post »Delta D-5-3
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:36amYea…….but are there Klingons on the starboard bow????
Report Post »80mesh
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:09amEnterprise …
toot toot beans up … re uh .. two to beam up
Report Post »SageInWaiting
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:58amAnd the price of a 1st class passage is? (Out of MY price range. ANOTHER privilege of the “1%”!!! SOMETHING TO STRIVE FOR!)
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:03amIn Flight Swimming Pools?
When will the triple deck and quad deck planes arrive? What airline will be the first to have an in flight swimming pool and jogging track? Razor blades are now up to five.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:56amLet’s make sure history must never forget…the name…Enterprise…
Report Post »theaveng
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:03amWhat a gigantic waste of space. That’s just extra weight that has to be lifted into the air (and thus fuel burned). Come the year 2050 when oil is as scarce as silver, people will look back at photos like this and think the same thing.
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:10amThe Triple Deck Passenger Plane Will Be Powered By A Nuclear Reactor.
Nuclear powered luxury liners will open a whole new era of air travel because it will be cheap enough to offer free air travel. Air travel will become a human right just like walking. Humans were meant to fly.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:30am@theaveng, OMG, can’t a girl have a Next Generation moment without worrying about the cost???
@4xeverything, you’re right: if Jean Luc is in command, sign me up for that flight!!
Report Post »Zipit
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:33amYo, Aveng! What’s the problem? Certainly we’ll have some of those lovely solar Powered planes by then. Won’t we?
Report Post »boomboom
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:41amand Tasha Yar is MY stewardess….Ooo baybee bay bee.
Report Post »morecoffeeplease
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:10am@4xeverything, lighten up dud, uh I mean dude. For all we know oil may be created by a natural process of heating the core of the earth and that by product seeping its way to the crust. WE don’t know! If that is right we will not be running out any time soon. I do know that GOD provides everything we need for us to live. All we have to do is use the resources, ALL of the resources he has provided us and get along with each other. so far we are 0 for 2.
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:31am@morecoffeeplease
Um, I think you were typing at someone else. All I want is a little Jean Luc with my first class ticket, and I’m not a guy.
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:46amNumber One… Engage!
Report Post »1776freedomofspeech
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:57am“Open the pod bay door HAL”
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:58amIf Jean Luc Picard is flying that bird, I’ll pay whatever they want for a ride.
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