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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.
[32] [33] [34] Both the earlier and later takeoff weights establish the An-225 as the world's heaviest aircraft, exceeding the weight of the double-deck Airbus A380 airliner. Airbus claims to have improved upon the An-225's maximum landing weight by landing an A380 at 591.7 t (652.2 short tons) during testing. [35] [a]
The Airbus A380-800 is the world's largest passenger aircraft with a maximum capacity of 853. It seats 193 more passengers than the Boeing 747-400. ... The Airbus A380-800 is the world's largest ...
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 ...
The Airbus A380 superjumbo was supposed to be a game-changing icon, but its inefficient four engines proved to be one of its biggest downfalls. The world's largest passenger jet took flight for ...
Emirates is the largest Airbus A380 operator Singapore Airlines was the first operator of the Airbus A380 All Nippon Airways was the last new customer of the Airbus A380. The following is a list of airlines that currently or formally operate the Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger aircraft.
The new Airbus narrow-body looks like its A321neoLR predecessor but can fly about 800 miles further thanks to an extra fuel tank in the belly, extending the aircraft's range 11 hours nonstop.