Superjumbo arrives in Sydney

The world's largest passenger jumbo jet - the Airbus A380 - has landed in Sydney after its first commercial flight from Singapore.
The massive aircraft touched down at Sydney Airport at 5.24pm (AEST) after leaving Singapore at 10.16am.

More than 100 members of domestic and international media were taken by bus to the 4km-long runway to record the historical event.
Sydney Airport personnel in utilities, equipped with loudspeakers, broadcast audio from the airport control tower, where traffic controllers referred to the plane as "the big fella''.

Passengers aboard tdoay's flight include 38-year-old Sydney resident Julian Hayward who paid $US100,000 ($111,000) for a first class seat and American Thomas Lee, who was also aboard the inaugural Boeing 747 flight in 1970.

A regular A380 service between Singapore and Sydney will begin on Sunday.

Superjumbo service on the Singapore-London route would start in February, and Japan could come later, according to SIA executives.