The Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 are giants of the skies but are gradually being retired. Only around 50 passenger Boeing 747s remain, with the last one manufactured in 2023. The Airbus A380 was ...

European aircraft manufacturer Airbus ... Boeing's 747, believing that the profits the American company made on 747 sales were helping it cross-subsidise other, smaller planes. The A380 succeeded ...

With four-engine jumbo jets like the Boeing 747 and the Airbus A380 quickly losing favor with airlines, smaller, more efficient twin-engine widebodies have taken their place as the industry's ...

In the early 1990s, McDonnell Douglas envisioned an aircraft that could rival the Boeing 747 and the Airbus A380—a revolutionary double-deck jumbo jet known as the MD-12. This ambitious design aimed ...