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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.
hide. Seat configurations of Airbus A380. 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.
Emirates' 100th A380 was delivered in October 2017. [42] [43] Furthermore, the airline had 41 more A380s on order, which would have increased the number of A380s in service to 141. It considered buying an additional 100 to 200 Airbus A380s if the four-engined superjumbo had been revamped with more fuel-efficient engines by 2020. [44] [45] [46]
List of Airbus A380 orders and deliveries. An A380-800 in its original Airbus livery. 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 [update]. [ 1 ] There were originally also 27 orders for the freighter version, the A380F, but when this programme ...
Transport for 300 t payload or 860-1,000 passengers Double deck airliner: Boeing 747X: 1996: 465.53 tons 747-400 stretch, Airbus A3XX competitor Boeing Pelican: 2002: 2657.36 tons Ground effect and medium altitude transport Airbus A380-900: 2006: 580.68 tons Airbus A380-800 stretch, postponed in May 2010 [6] TsAGI HCA-LB: 2010s: 984.21 tons
Qantas Flight 32 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from London to Sydney via Singapore. On 4 November 2010, the aircraft operating the route, an Airbus A380, suffered an uncontained failure in one of its four Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines. The failure occurred over the Riau Islands, Indonesia, four minutes after takeoff from Singapore ...
An Emirates Airbus A380 departs London Heathrow Airport (2015). Emirates' 100th A380 at Dubai Air Show 2017. In April 2000, Emirates announced an order for the Airbus A3XX (later named Airbus A380), the largest widebody airliner ever built. The deal consisted of five A380-800 passenger aircraft and two freighter versions.
The partly underground Terminal 3 was built at a cost of US$4.5 billion, exclusively for Emirates, and has a capacity of 65 million passengers. The terminal has 20 Airbus A380 gates at Concourse A and 5 at Concourse B and 2 at Concourse C. [90] It was announced on 6 September 2012 that Terminal 3 would no longer be Emirates-exclusive, as ...