On the morning of November 4th, 2010, 440 passengers and 29 crew boarded Qantas flight 32, at Singapore’s Changi airport. The aircraft they were flying on, a state-of-the-art Airbus A380, would go on ...

While the A380 seems to be making a small comeback in recent years, the program as a whole was a failure for Airbus. According to the BBC, the $25 billion that were spent to develop it were never ...

Turbine aircraft engines are known for being very reliable but few things in life are certain. Here is what you need to know ...

When Singapore Airlines took the A380 superjumbo for its first commercial flight in 2007, there was widespread applause that the future of air travel had arrived. But the Airbus programme ...

Michael Goldstein is a journalist and playwright based in Los Angeles. Emirates very first Airbus A380, A6-EDA, in flight. The plane was retired in 2020 after flying more ... [+] than 2 million ...

But the cause of any such failure is not yet clear. Passengers were stranded on the plane in Canada for a number of hours, as the airport is not equipped to handle an Airbus A380. He said ...