Airlines are, after all, businesses, and they need to generate revenue while minimizing costs in order to thrive. For this reason, especially for carriers with large fleets, even a small difference in ...

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 ...

Three airlines will fly the 747: Air China ( whose jumbos have returned to Washington Dulles and will do so to New York JFK ) ...

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

While the Airbus A380 ultimately surpassed it in sheer size and capacity, the 747 is widely regarded as the more successful and versatile of the two. The largest iteration of the Boeing 747 ...

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 ...

Korean Air will postpone planned retirements of its Airbus A380s and Boeing 747-8s amid ongoing delays ... The airline had previously indicated that the A380 would begin exiting the fleet from ...