A surge in defense spending, partnerships in hydrogen propulsion and new combat aircraft agreements, many backed by ...

SimpleFlying. Why Did Air France Retire The Airbus A380 So Early? Posted: May 16, 2025 | Last updated: May 16, 2025. While British Airways and Lufthansa brought their superjumbos out of storage ...

But sales of this double-decker model failed to take off as smoothly as the test aircraft did on that sunny day in France. When production ended more than three years ago – the final aircraft was ...

Air France-KLM is substituting two A350 passenger jets for freighter aircraft on its Airbus orderbook because it can get the passenger planes sooner. The post Air France-KLM trims Airbus order for ...

Engine technology has come a long way, including the newest engines such as the Airbus A350’s Rolls-Royce Trent XWB, or the Boeing 777X’s GE9X. For example, the Trent XWB’s Bypass ratio is 9.6:1, ...

07/07/2022 July 7, 2022. The world’s biggest airliner, the Airbus A380, had been pronounced dead, almost on arrival. But it's flying high again as travel roars back.

After the COVID-19 pandemic paused air travel in 2020, Lufthansa parked 14 Airbus A380 jumbo aircraft in Spain and France for long-term “deep storage.” The German airliner eventually sold off ...

A380 Airbus flies high as airlines return to the skies. ... Air France ceased deploying its A380s two years before their scheduled retirement in 2022.

On April 27, 2005, nearly 30,000 people gathered at the Airbus facility in Toulouse, France, to witness the A380’s first flight. Most were there to marvel that such a monster could actually fly.

In April 2004, it was none other than Air France, in Airbus’ backyard, that took delivery of the ... “If Cathay Pacific had gone for the A380, Air Chinawould have followed,” says a source ...

Ten years later, when Airbus committed to building the A380, 747 orders were down to 26 and deliveries to 25. And with few exceptions since, 747 production has continuously declined.