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Tickets for First Commercial Airbus A380 Flight to be sold on eBay

by Neil Woodburn (RSS feed) on Jul 30th 2007 at 7:52AM

Want to be on board the first commercial flight of the Airbus A380?

Then head on over to eBay.

Singapore Airlines expects the world's first commercial A380 flight to take place sometime in October between Singapore and Sydney.

To kick off the inaugural flight, and to allow passengers to "be a part of history," the airline will be selling tickets on eBay. This might sound like a greedy attempt to ratchet up the cost, but the reality is that all proceeds will go to charity so hats off to Singapore Airlines for a classy move (and some savvy marketing).

No date has been set yet for the auction, but airline spokespersons estimate it will be a few weeks before the flight--perhaps late September or early October.

The Singapore Airbus can seat more than 550 passengers. I suspect all seats will be sold quickly and expensively when the auction finally kicks off. So, you'd better make sure you have enough money in your PayPal account!

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