Passengers love Boeing 747s and Airbus A380s, AKA the world’s biggest commercial jets, but they’re slowly being phased out.

Alongside critical aspects such as safety, cost is one of the most important factors when it comes to major decision-making processes in the aviation industry. Airlines are, after all, businesses ...

Can the Airbus A380 'superjumbo' outlive the Boeing 747 'jumbo jet'? The answer depends somewhat on how that question is answered. The A380 is designed with an operational lifespan of around 25 ...

Four-turbine aircraft are a rare sight on the tarmac these days, as the efficiency and affordability of twinjet aircraft has ...

After Air China pulled its LAX 747 flights, only Air Korea and Lufthansa are flying their jumbos to Los Angeles.

Airbus famously quotes, “It takes an A380 to compete with the A380.” It appears that one A380 can cause wake turbulence large ...

You'd be hard-pressed to forget a ride on the Airbus A380 ... seats than the world's second-largest aircraft, Boeing's 747-8. As such, the A380 is so heavy that it requires four engines to ...

Phil Cooke—flightlineimages.com With the Airbus A380 weighing in fully loaded at ... unlike the thrust reversers on most airliners, including the Boeing 747 jumbo, they do not stop the aircraft ...