With seating for up to 800 passengers between two decks, Airbus’ A380 super-jumbo jet was envisioned in 2000 as a flagship aircraft for the European company, offering a luxurious experience for ...

With seating for up to 800 passengers between two decks, Airbus’ A380 super-jumbo jet was envisioned in 2000 as a flagship aircraft for the European company, offering a luxurious experience for ...

The A380 super jumbo has many supporters around the world ... in the early 2000s. “Airbus had come up with a fairly sad possibility of putting benches and having little lounges there, but ...

the outlook for the double-decker Airbus A380 now looks uncertain as airlines are increasingly looking to smaller, more fuel-efficient planes. Orders of the super jumbo have dried up following a ...

"The A380 is here to stay!" Before January, when Japan's ANA Holdings announced it was buying three A380s, Airbus had gone three years without signing up any new customers for the super jumbo.

In the 1990s, Lockheed Martin designed a massive double-deck aircraft meant to carry 900 passengers—outclassing the later Airbus A380. The "Very Large Aeroplane" featured four engines ...

A new era in air travel starts in the United States today, when an Airbus A380 super-jumbo laden with paying passengers lands here for the first time. But U.S. airlines have nothing to do with the ...

LONDON — Airbus Group raised the prospect of discontinuing its A380 super-jumbo jetliner as soon as 2018, the first admission that it may have misjudged the market for the double-decker after ...

TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - Europe's Airbus is scrapping production of the A380 superjumbo, with lackluster sales forcing it to abandon a dream of dominating the skies with a 21st century ...