On Tuesday the 2^nd of June, An Airbus A380, the world's biggest passenger jet, landed in Paris Charles de Gaulle airport for its first commercial flight between Paris Charles de Gaulle airport and Singapore, the official welcoming ceremony was cancelled due to  the Air France disaster between Rio in Brazil and Paris, France.

Airbus' jumbo A380 plane made a landmark flight on Tuesday when it flew from Paris to Singapore -- kicking off new scheduled service and marking the first return-trip flight out of continental Europe.

Singapore Airlines already runs A380 flights from Singapore to Sydney, London and Tokyo.

Singapore Airlines was the first customer to take delivery of the A380 in October 2007.

Also this week, Emirates is kicking off A380 service from Dubai to Bangkok and Toronto -- which is the first A380 commercial service to those cities.

Yesterday, Emirates said that two A380s -- each bound for opposite sides of the world -- combined carried 978 meals, about 22 tons of cargo and 60 cabin crew members who could speak more than 20 languages