The US capital city will see its first service from an Airbus A380 in June.

The event will will coincide with the commencement of Air France’s new daily A380 serve between Paris and Washington’s Dulles International Airport in Virginia.

The Air France flight will have a capacity of 516 passengers and will be a brand new aircraft. Four classes will be available: nine seats of La Première (first class); 80 Affaires-Business (business class) seats; 38 Premium Voyageur (premium economy) seats and 389 Voyageur (economy class) seats. The economy cabin of the A380 alone offers more seats than the total amount of seats on most long-haul aircraft.

Dulles airport will mark the fifth destination served by the A380 and the service will begin just after it receives its fifth and newest A380 in its growing fleet. Other destinations currently hosting Air France A380 flights from Paris are Johannesburg, Tokyo and New York’s JKF Airport. On the 22nd of April the carrier will begin A380 service to Montreal following receipt of its fourth model.

Thanks to the capacity of the so-called super-jumbo jet, Air France will be reducing the frequency of services to certain destinations whilst retaining similar capacity numbers. Upon delivery of the new A380s, flights to Montreal will drop from 28 to 20 a week and service to Washington DC will decrease from 20 to 14 flights weekly.