Current double deck aircrafts?
 

Hi yall, random question - are the Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 the only two commercial double deckers currently in production? Aircrafts with partial double deck for crew does not count, only passengers.

yes according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-deck_aircraft

Wasn't someone here talking a few months ago about another Airbus that has the option to partially build out with a lower deck and that only half a dozen or so examples of it are flying with a LCC in the EU? One of the A340 variants?

Lufthansa's A 340-600 has a stair from the coach cabin to a bank of lavs on the lower deck. No lavs on the main deck in coach. No seats on the lower deck, just lavs and a galley, but still accessible to pax.

I expect that what I'm trying to recall. Thanks. See what happens when you read FT while drunk and then try to remember the details later? :)

Wow, I didn't know of this! Doubt it would 'fly' in the USA, given the inevitable issues for 'differently-abled' pax. Although I suppose they could receive dispensation to use the upper-class lavs?

I recently flew on LH A340, but eaant aware of this... Do all A340 have the bathroom on lower deck?

I'm sure they accomodate pax that can't make it downstairs in the J lav.
Of course, this brings up an interesting question. LH has all F seats on the upper deck of the 744. Are they able to accomodate F pax who can't walk up the stairs? They don't usually board via the upper doors. Are there any other airlines that have one class exclusively on the upper deck of a 747? I can't think of any, every other 747 operator I can think of splits a class (or 2 classes) across the main deck and upper deck.

BTW, my first post in OMNI.

No. Just their A340-600 variants.

Thomas Cook also has loos downstairs on some of their aircraft - but they do have 1 loo at the back for those unable to use stairs.

As is proper. After all, you don't want the riff raff from steerage intruding. It might startle the children. :D

In the "jet age," were there others?

I recall reading about a lower deck lounge on L-1011s?

Anything else?

Way back when we were all toddlers, or some such, an airline called TWA had "Royal Ambassador Class" solely upstairs. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven! Sadly, a 'corporate raider' named Carl Icahn took control of TWA, saddled it with debt, gave himself a half-billion-dollar payout, and ran it into the ground. But I digress.

Welcome to OMNI, also, abandon hope all ye :cool:

Trouble with that is that FA unions would commandeer the space for themselves :p