Special report:   2008 Olympic Games     

    SINGAPORE, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Singapore Airlines (SIA), the country's national carrier, will fly the Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger plane, to Beijing to meet demand before the Olympic Games, the airline said in a statement on Wednesday.

    The carrier will fly the A380 on one of its three daily flights to Beijing for one week in early August, the airline said in the statement.

    The first A380 flight to China will leave Singapore on August 2.Thereafter, it will operate daily till August 8, after which service will revert to the normal scheduled Boeing 777 aircraft.

    All timings are subject to regulatory approval and slot allocations, said SIA.

    Singapore Airlines is the first airline in the world to receive and operate the A380. Currently it flies A380s from Singapore to Sydney and London. The Singapore-Tokyo service will commence on May 20.