The A380 comes to Washington Dulles IAD

The Washington DC Lufthansa Sales and Station Colleagues welcomed the A380 as it carried over 500 Lufthansa employees and guests from Frankfurt to Washington. It touched down Sunday evening. After making sure we got all of the inbound passengers and VIPs to their hotels, we started decorating the Dulles Jet Center with Lufthansa and Airbus signage - it was our welcome center for our local guests who would be shuttled out to the aircraft for tours, and the highlight, a 1.5 hour fly around down the Potomac at only 10K feet about D.C. We received our first guests at 0600 and went lept bringing people out to see and tour the aircraft until 1700 when they had to do the preps for the return flight to FRA Monday evening. I can't tell you how many texts I got from friends downtown and in Alexandria and Arlington who said they got to see it as it went down the Potomac. Equally exciting for me was having coordinated the D.C. visit and getting an "all access" pass to see this gentle giant. The one thing everyone said was how quiet it was.