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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 following is a list of current and former operators of the Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger aircraft. Emirates , one of the two flag carriers of the United Arab Emirates , is the largest operator as of December 2024 [update] , with 116 aircraft in their fleet.
There are 251 firm orders by 14 customers for the passenger version of the Airbus A380-800, all of which have been delivered as of December 2021. [1] There were originally also 27 orders for the freighter version, the A380F, but when this programme was frozen following production delays, 20 A380F orders were cancelled and the remaining seven ...
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 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.
In February 2019 Airbus announced the end of the A380 production after the remaining orders would be delivered. By June 2019, 154 Boeing 747-8 were ordered and 134 delivered, while 290 Airbus A380 were ordered and 238 delivered. Boeing pursued and then cancelled several projects, including the Sonic Cruiser. Boeing's current platform for fleet ...
Airbus and Boeing are working on 17,000 new aircraft orders, but only 1,254 will have been delivered under current projections (30% less than forecast for 2024). In 2018, for example, airlines ...
Nearly 8,000 people watched an Emirates A380 struggle to land at Birmingham. After a failed landing attempt, it circled the airfield five times before ultimately managing to touch down.