Giants Of The Skies: How The Airbus A380 & Boeing 747 Compare To One Another
747-8 Specifications Passengers 467 (max ... and Rolls-Royce RB211 engines. The Airbus A380 leaped over the Boeing 747 as a ...
Airbus A380: 5 Things To Know Before Your First Flight On The Superjumbo
A total of 272 A380 examples have been built. The aircraft has a maximum cruising speed of 488 knots, according to ...
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Take a look at 10 of the world's largest passenger planes, from the Boeing 747-400 to the Airbus A380-800
The world's first-ever jumbo jet, the Boeing 747, was constructed by American aircraft ... commercial aircraft by passenger capacity — the A380-800. Take a look at the 10 of the world's largest ...
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Airline review: Remember flying’s bad old days? After this flight, I do
It’s one of only a handful of passenger carriers worldwide flying 747-8s, with 19 in the fleet ... s seatback entertainment is delivered via an 8.5-inch (21.5-centimetre) touchscreen that ...
Could planes be brought back from the desert to fill the global shortage of aircraft?
“Bring back the Boeing 747,” many former passengers and crew will chorus. But that particular plane has flown for the last ...
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Qantas’ SYD-JNB with A380: the shape of superjumbos to come?
Qantas’ deployment of its Airbus A380 on the Sydney-Johannesburg route marks multiple changes: a major capacity boost, ...
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I fly the iconic superjumbo making an unlikely comeback – this is what it’s like
Captain Lee Nightingale “It’s iconic – everybody wants to fly on it. It’s also an incredible feat of engineering, bearing in mind the weight. We have a maximum take-off weight of 575 tonnes [the total ...
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A380: Last of the superjumbos handed to new owner
The A380 was meant to be a symbol of European industrial prowess, a flagship for the Airbus fleet to surpass Boeing's 747 jumbo. At the time, it was widely assumed that major airport hubs around ...
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Own A Piece Of Emirates Airlines’ Very First Airbus A380
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Michael Goldstein is a journalist and playwright based in Los Angeles. Emirates very first Airbus A380, A6-EDA, in flight. The plane was ...
I flew on a British Airways A380 in economy and premium economy. Upgrading isn't really worth it.
Touches of luxury in British AIrways' World Traveller Plus didn't feel like a huge upgrade as the A380 upper deck has plenty ...