Denver is Getting its First-Ever A380 ‘Super-Jumbo’ Flights

The world’s largest passenger aircraft is heading for Colorado. German flag carrier Lufthansa is rostering the Airbus A380 between Munich and Denver for the coming summer season.

It will be the first time the double-decker A380 has operated scheduled flights to and from the Mile High City.

The inaugural super-jumbo service will touch down on April 30, and operate one of two daily links from Munich this summer.

Flight LH480 leaves Munich at 11:15 a.m. and lands in Denver at 1:45 p.m. local time. The enormous aircraft is turned around in two and a half hours, ahead of its overnight return journey. LH481 departs Colorado at 4:15 p.m. and arrives in Germany at 10:50 a.m. the following morning.

Denver has two gates capable of handling the plane. The airport's only prior experience with the A380 is during emergency, weather-related, or other unscheduled diversions.

Some of Lufthansa’s A380s are now 15 years old. Despite being leapfrogged by newer jets such as the A350, Heiko Reitz, the airline’s chief commercial officer