Airline Routes

Lufthansa's third A380 launched its first scheduled service from Frankfurt to Beijing Wednesday. The A380 will operate once-weekly service to Beijing and twice-weekly flights from FRA to Johannesburg beginning Sept. 12.

Air France started operating an A380 on the Paris Charles de Gaulle Paris–Tokyo Narita route Wednesday. CDG-NRT is AF’s third route served by an A380, following CDG-New York JFK in November 2009 and CDG-Johannesburg in February. AF’s A380s are equipped with 538 seats in three cabin classes with nine in first class, 80 in business and 449 in economy. AF has ordered 12 A380s, four of which have been delivered.

Anadolujet will launch thrice-weekly Ankara–Moscow Domodedovo service from Oct. 31 aboard a 737-700.

FlyDubai will launch twice-weekly Dubai–Ekaterinburg service from Oct. 31, its first service to Russia, aboard a 737-800.