World’s largest plane coming to Bengaluru two weeks sooner

A380, the world’s largest and most spacious passenger plane, will be touching down at Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) on Friday, October 14, more than two weeks earlier than previously announced.

Emirates Airlines’ flight number EK562 will take off from the Dubai International Airport at 10 am (local time) on October 14 and land at the KIA at 3.40 pm (local time). On the way back, passengers aboard flight number EK563 will travel in an A380, leaving Bengaluru at 6.40 pm (local time) to reach Dubai at 9 pm (local time).