(Reuters) – Qatar Airways will take delivery of its first three Airbus A380 aircraft in June and inaugurate its superjumbo services with a daily flight to London, Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker said on Wednesday.

He also told a news conference in Berlin that planemaker Airbus was on schedule to deliver its first A350 to Qatar “towards the end of this year”.

Qatar Airways is the launch customer for Europe’s new mid-sized passenger jet, with 80 A350s on order.

It has also ordered 10 of the larger A380s and says it has a total of 300 Airbus and Boeing jets on order, including options.

Al Baker, who has previously criticised the reliability of  the 787 Dreamliner, said the airline continued to have “issues” with Boeing’s latest airplane but described them as normal teething troubles for a new model.

He was speaking at the world’s largest tourism fair, where the airline unveiled its A380 offering including wireless Internet and what it says will be the industry’s widest first-class seats, supplied by B/E Aerospace.

Qatar Airways also said it will be flying to a new destination, Tokyo’s Haneda, on top of six routes already announced for this year including Philadelphia, Dallas and Miami in the United States.

It recently said it will start all-business class travel between London and Doha on an Airbus A319, a premium service that Al Baker joked would “not be cheap”.

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