One estimate is that the A380 costs between $26,000 and $29,000 per hour to operate, compared to about $7400 an hour for the Boeing 777. Air France is between the proverbial rock and a hard place ...

Air France-KLM chief executive Ben Smith says he has "no regrets" about his decision to remove the Airbus A380 from the group ...

The Airbus A380 has become the latest victim of the global pandemic. Air France announced today that it would be phasing out its entire fleet of double-deckers with the “definitive end” taking ...

Airlines are steadily moving away from A380s in favor of long-haul twin-engine aircraft that offer improved efficiency and ...

The A380-800's massive wings, optimized for the never-built A380-900, were one of the many problems faced by the Superjumbo.

Air France is retiring ... next-generation aircraft from Boeing and Airbus. Less than two years before its retirement, in 2018, I flew on an Air France A380 from Los Angeles to Paris, my first ...

Air France will retire its Airbus A380 fleet by 2022 and is studying options to replace the double-deck type with twinjets. The airline previously decided to decommission three of its 10 A380s and ...

Une règle qui a conduit à une sorte de « Yalta » entre Airbus et Boeing : en clair ... Les deux A380 financés par les crédits-exports par Air France ont été livrés fin 2011 et en mai ...

Air France, a joint venture partner of Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines, will continue operating the other daily flight on a Boeing 777-200ER jet. The A380 flight departs from Atlanta at 8:15 p.m ...

Air France will begin flying the Airbus ... to Paris-Charles de Gaulle on its 516-seat A380. The other daily flight will be on a Boeing 777. It's not the first time an A380 has flown to Hartsfield ...

Transavia would phase out the Boeing 737-700 and Air France would see its regional carrier phase out the Embraer E145 and ATR72-600 while phasing the Airbus A340 and Airbus A380. At the time ...

A bord, Air France propose trois classes ... entre 12 et 15 millions d’euros par avion." L’A380 offre une capacité équivalente à celles d’un Boeing 777-200 et d’un Airbus A340 réunies ...