superjumbo

Last superjumbo returns after nearly six years in storage and overhaul.

By the end of this year, the Australian airline plans to have 10 A380s back in service after being placed in storage during the pandemic.

Once an early adopter of the superjumbo aircraft, Air France-KLM CEO Benjamin Smith stands by the airline’s 2020 decision to phase out the A380 completely.

While some of the superjumbo jets were retired during the COVID-19 pandemic, 189 A380s remain in active service worldwide.

Lufthansa plans to expand its Airbus A380 network in the coming months. By next summer, it plans to have eight of the superjumbo aircraft in revenue service.

As aircraft deliveries are still posing a challenge for many airlines, Etihad is battling the issue by bringing back the iconic Airbus A380 aircraft.

Taking a flight down memory lane to the aviation market in the 1960s and all the way till the early 2000s, airlines then needed bigger aircraft capacity to ferry as many passengers as possible for a variety of reasons that still exists today – from weeding out the competition to maximizing whatever airport slots these […]

Emirates took delivery of MSN272 on Thursday, 21 years after betting on the model as its launch customer during the 2000 Farnborough Air Show, when the aircraft was still being presented as A3XX, thus marking the end of the production line of the largest passenger aircraft in history. A total of 251 aircraft were produced, […]

Earlier this week, Emirates SkyCargo announced that it has started utilizing the Airbus A380 for select cargo charter operations. According to the carrier, the dedicated cargo operations using the A380 comes in response to increased demand for air cargo capacity to transport critical goods, such as medical supplies needed as a result of the COVID-19 […]

Air France has announced it will immediately retire its Airbus A380 fleet following the impact of the COVID-19 crisis. The airline was due to retire nine A380s from its fleet by 2022, however, the French flag carrier has brought this date forward. In a statement, the airline said: “In the context of the current COVID-19 […]