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The Airbus A380 is a very large wide-body airliner, developed and produced by Airbus. It is the world's largest passenger airliner and the only full-length double-deck jet airliner. Airbus studies started in 1988, and the project was announced in 1990 to challenge the dominance of the Boeing 747 in the long-haul market. The then-designated A3XX ...
The A380-800 layout with 519 seats displayed (16 First, 92 Business and 411 Economy) The Airbus A380 features two full-length decks, each measuring 49.9 metres (164 ft). The upper deck has a slightly shorter usable length of 44.93 metres (147.4 ft) due to the front fuselage curvature and the staircase.
English: An overlay diagram showing five of the largest airplanes ever built, the Hughes H-4 Spruce Goose (airplane with the greatest height), the Antonov An-225 Mriya (the largest airplane), the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental (the largest version of the Boeing 747 Jumbojet), the Airbus A380-800 (the largest passenger airplane), and the Scaled Composites Stratolaunch (airplane with the greatest ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 23:01, 4 September 2006: 700 × 900 (58 KB): Ctillier: 04:26, 9 August 2006: 700 × 900 (53 KB): Ctillier {{Information |Description=Cross section of the Airbus A380 aircraft, showing economy class with 10 abreast seating on the main deck and 8 abreast seating on the upper deck, as well as two LD-3 cargo containers side by side in the lower ...
Airbus ended production of the A380 in 2021 — 18 years after it began. The four-engined plane received 251 orders from 14 customers, with many airlines wary of its high operating costs.
The Rolls-Royce Trent 900 is a high-bypass turbofan produced by Rolls-Royce plc to power the Airbus A380, competing with the Engine Alliance GP7000.Initially proposed for the Boeing 747-500/600X in July 1996, [2] this first application was later abandoned but it was offered for the A3XX, [3] launched as the A380 in December 2000. [4]
The size of RMS Titanic compared with a human, car, bus, and an Airbus A380. The following is a list of the largest passenger vehicles with consumer availability in history. Overall
In February 2019, almost 5 years after cancelling orders for 70 Airbus A350s in favour of ordering more A380s, Emirates decided to order Airbus' newest generation wide-body aircraft, namely the Airbus A330neo and Airbus A350-900, and reduce its orders for the Airbus A380. The memorandum of understanding was for 40 A330-900 and 30 A350-900 ...