Do you have a preferred airplane to fly long haul on?

Do you have a preferred airplane to fly long haul on?

My guess is that most people don't care or notice, even among frequent flyers, but I was documenting my intercontinental trips and thinking about each flight. Over the past few years, I've flown on the A380-800, A330neo, 777-300ER, 787-9, and 747-8I. This just about covers the major long-haul model families, except for the A350, which I haven't been on yet. I think my favorite to fly on is the A380, just because it's so big and impressive look…

Happy birthday, A380: Airbus celebrates 20 years of its superjumbo

On April 27, 2025, Airbus marked 20 years since the first flight of its A380 superjumbo commercial passenger aircraft. Although production of the behemoth ended in 2021, there are still around 180 aircraft in active airline service out of the 251 airframes that were completed during its production run. April 27, 2005, was a blue-sky day in Toulouse, France, the site of the A380’s final assembly plant. At exactly 10:30, the first A380 ever produc…

It celebrates Airbus 20 years of the first flight of the A380 It highlighted the technological advances that this model introduced in commercial aviation and its current role as testing platform for propulsion systems of new generation Writing A21 Lun, 28/04/2025 - 01:00 Airbus celebrated this Sunday the 20 years of the inaugural flight of the A380, model that was catalogued at the time as the “insignificant vessel of the 21st century”. The Fren…

A technological marvel and a symbol of luxury. The world's largest passenger plane first took to the skies twenty years ago. The double-decker giant was supposed to rewrite aviation history – and it did. Just differently than its creators imagined.

First flight of the A380, the largest passenger aircraft ever built, completes 20 years

On April 27, 2005, at 10:29 a.m., the largest commercial aircraft in the world took off from Toulouse,… The post First flight of the A380, the largest passenger aircraft ever built, completes 20 years appeared first on Air Data News.

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