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    A shower room in first class is pictured on the upper deck of an Emirates Airbus A380, after it landed at Manchester Airport in Manchester, north-west England on September 1, 2010. Manchester is the second airport in UK to start accepting the Airbus, after London Heathrow.

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    A stewardess poses for photographers in the bar on the upper deck.

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    A first class seat, set for lunch.

    A shower in the sky

    Q: Who says commercial air travel is awful these days?

    A: Probably not the folks who can afford the $7840 for a first-class round trip flight from Dubai to Manchester.*

    Previously: Airbus 380 = Huge

    *Based on a flight search on Emirates' U.K. site, and using their site currency converter.

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    An Airbus A380 of German airline Lufthansa rolls over a bridge after it landed at the airport in Schkeuditz near Leipzig in eastern Germany on June 1, 2010. The German national football team will use an A380 when they travel on June 6, 2010 to South Africa to take part in the 2010 Football World Cup.

    Airbus 380 = HUGE

    I saw one of these for the first time on Friday, from the window of a 757 on the tarmac at Sea-Tac. It's hard to describe how big this aircraft is, but getting the scale of the cars and roadway in this picture really helps.