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As one of the lucky 70 or so passengers (mostly Qantas staff, media and Qantas guests like designer Marc Newson and chef Neil Perry – but not, perhaps surprisingly, Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon or his successor Alan Joyce), your editor had plenty of time to ponder the significance of the Airbus A380 during the delivery