Boeing depends on steady growth of demand for air cargo travel for order inflow for the Boeing 747-8. Airbus depends on passengers for order inflow for the Airbus A380. Airbus has to make A380 ...

Airbus had watched enviously as Boeing monopolized the market for very large aircraft with its 747 jumbo, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this month and sold more than 1,500 units. While ...

Why buy a gigantic Airbus A380 or Boeing 747 when you can squeeze more seats into a smaller plane instead? The Boeing 747 is arguably the most iconic plane of all time, and last year it became the ...

They’re massive pieces of engineering that seem to defy physics as they hang in the air during takeoff and landing, but double-decker passenger airplanes — the Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 ...

The Airbus A380-800 is the world's largest passenger aircraft with a maximum capacity of 853. It seats 193 more passengers than the second-largest passenger plane, the Boeing 747-400. Only two ...

After investing billions into the A380, Europe's largest aerospace company had hoped to overtake its biggest competitor, Boeing's 747 jet. Airbus had once positioned itself as a luxury airplane ...

With Airbus ending the A380, the A350 is now its largest airliner ... The 747-8 is also the largest variant of the B-747 family of jets (two B-747-8Is are currently being converted to replace ...

If you have taken a relatively recent flight inside the U.S., chances are pretty strong it was either on board a Boeing 737 or an Airbus A320, the two best-selling commercial airplanes in the world.

Los Angeles — The Airbus A380, the largest passenger ... sound of the aircraft and an incoming Boeing 747 teased the crowd into thinking the A380 was on final approach. “The anticipation ...

EVERETT – Airbus’ superjumbo ... of Vancouver, B.C., on Wednesday, but it wasn’t casting much of a shadow on the Boeing Co.’s prospects. Just a day before the A380 touched down, the ...