Double Decker Airbus A380

This includes more than 300 commercial flights per day which take off or land around the world every two minutes.

Double decker airbus a380. Also a loyal european customer air france which retired its first a380 last year has recently said it will accelerate the phase out of airbus biggest commercial planes. The a380 is a modern icon that has flown over 500 000 revenue flights carrying over 190 million passengers. In april another a380 customer announced permanently decommissioning six double deckers and it is lufthansa. The airbus a380 is the world s largest passenger airliner a wide body aircraft manufactured by airbus 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.

Airbus launched the 9 5 billion 10 7 billion a380 programme on 19 december 2000. Airbus has said the last delivery of the double decker a380 is scheduled for 2021. When the one market showing signs of recovery never really cared for it. The a3xx project was presented in 1994.

This article takes a look at why the a380 never gained much favor with chinese carriers. China southern is the only chinese airline to operate the a380 photo.