While the aircraft seems to have made somewhat of a comeback in recent years, the program was a failure for Airbus.

"And then of course all the investment in the A380 technology was the foundation of what the A350 is today." But, while it may have been a commercial failure for Airbus, the superjumbo has clearly ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Miami-bound British Airways aircraft made an unexpected return to London on Thursday evening after shutting down one of its engines.

Captain Richard Champion de Crespigny was an A380 captain and was the pilot in command of Qantas flight QF32 that suffered an engine failure over Singapore on November 4, 2010. He is the author of two ...

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 ...

A 1.25m tool was left inside the engine of a Qantas A380 which flew multiple international trips before it was found. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said it was "a failure on a number of ...