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Airbus admits flying casino could be on the way

It seems recent news that online casinos could be making their way on to aeroplanes is not enough to satisfy people's urges to gamble when they fly.

That appears to be the implication of an Airbus announcement that they are in talks with "several" companies to set up a real life gambling resort on one of its superjumbo A380s.

Spokesman for the company David Velupillai told Agence France-Presse: "The biggest attraction of the A380 is that it's got 50 percent more floor space than the [Boeing] 747.

"If you have to do something like [a casino], you have got the floor space that will allow you to."

Mr Velupillai suggested there had been a lot of interest, but that perhaps casinos were not the only proposals on the table.

The A380 is the world's largest passenger plane and took its maiden flight in 2005.