The world's first-ever jumbo jet, the Boeing ... Airbus, the world's biggest commercial plane manufacturer, introduced the world's largest commercial aircraft by passenger capacity — the A380-800.
With four-engine jumbo jets like the Boeing 747 and the Airbus A380 quickly losing favor with airlines, smaller, more efficient twin-engine widebodies have taken their place as the industry's ...
When Airbus's A380 first took off it was hailed as a technological ... There was a bigger game afoot - Airbus needed to negate Boeing's 747, believing that the profits the American company made ...
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 ...