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

Through all this, Airbus also began studies, led by Wolf-Dieter Wissel, for something even larger than the 747-400. After ...

The world's first-ever jumbo jet, the Boeing 747 ... Airbus, the world's biggest commercial plane manufacturer, introduced the world's largest commercial aircraft by passenger capacity — the ...

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 ...

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