More Details On Final Air France A380 Flight

a large white airplane on a runway

Last week I wrote about a final Air France A380 “farewell” flight planned for this Friday. We now have more details about the flight.

Details: Final Air France A380 Flight

Via AirlineGeeks, we now have more details about the final flight:e

The flight will take place on Friday; a two-hour “flight to nowhere” from Paris (CDG) to Paris that will sightsee over Metropolitan France, departing at 3:30PM CET
F-HPJH, an eight-year-old A380 will be used for the journey
- This aircraft debuted on a Paris to New York flight in 2012
- The last time this aircraft was used was from Miami to Paris on March 22, 2020
Every Air France A380 pilot will be onboard (200 pilots)
Other passengers will include:
- Air France executives
- Ground personnel and mechanics specifically associated with A380
- “specially-selected” guests
- Employees chosen by lottery

Sounds like a fun flight. I did not even bother to see if I could get on, despite my long list of writings on the Air France A380 (just a sampling below). It does pain to say that Air France will retire its A380 with me never having stepped onboard. I still look forward to vicariously reading about this final flight through others. Hopefully there will be plenty of pictures and video I can share on Saturday.

2 Comments

Andy K Reply

June 25, 2020 at 10:58 am

I read that AirFrance has 9 A380s, but they have 200 pilots? That seems like a very large number of pilots — more than 20 per plane.
- Kenneth Reply
  
  June 25, 2020 at 2:29 pm
  
  That seems about right. United Airlines’ pilot/aircraft ratio is 17.6 : 1 and a lot of their flying is domestic, where as Air France’s A380 only flew very long hauls, requiring more rest time between trips.