The Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger airplane, will start flying regularly out of Washington Dulles International Airport on June 6, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority announced Wednesday.
Air France will be making direct flights on the two-level plane to Paris.
New York’s JFK and Los Angeles LAX already have flights with the behemoths. But not many U.S. airports can handle the giant planes. The plane is not just a jumbo jet, but a superjumbo jet. It is designed to fit as many as 853 passengers.
MWAA spokesman Rob Yingling said that Dulles needed to build two special jet bridges for passengers to board the multi-level plane.
The A380 had come to the airport in 2007 for a test flight, he said. But the Air France flights would be the first regular service out of the Washington region on the giant planes.
