configurations. The A380-800 has a design range of 15,400 kilometres (8,300 nmi; 9,600 mi), sufficient to fly from New York to Hong Kong, and a cruising speed of Mach  0.85 (about 900 km/h or 560 mph at cruising altitude). As of October 2012 [update] there had been 257 firm orders for the A380, of which