A380

Eight Airbus A380s are holding out on the Lufthansa fleet. The German airline's largest aircraft will receive special attention. New seats are expected in business class. Despite Lufthansa's extensive "Allegris" offensive, this time the seats will be designed by the manufacturer Thompson. From February, Lufthansa...

Is there a passenger in First? "Yes, Sir" is the obvious answer from British Airways. British Airways also points out that it is the only European airline to have maintained a First Class service between London and the United States. British Airways even intends to offer these privileged travellers...

Emirates' iconic A380 will be back on the tarmac at Nice airport from 31 March 2024. By offering additional seats, Emirates is responding to market demand and opening up even more travel opportunities to Dubai and beyond for its customers. In 2024, the airline will also celebrate its 30th anniversary...

Lufthansa will be launching new Airbus A380 destinations from Munich next winter. From 5 October, the airline will once again operate daily services to Los Angeles with the giant aircraft. This will be followed on 28 October by the entry into service of an Airbus A380 to Bangkok. The aircraft will increase the number of seats available by almost...

Introduced on 1 August 2022 on the Paris-Dubai route, the 56-seat Premium Economy class on A380s has already had its day. It is no longer offered on the route to the Gulf emirate. This is due to the repositioning by Dubai Airlines of the A380s that used to fly between Paris CDG and Dubai...

It seems that the Airbus A380 has an above-average capacity for resilience... Regularly described as an endangered species, promised to be scrapped, the super-jumbo is now used to comebacks. Etihad recently announced the return to service of four A380s next summer. And now it's Emirates' turn...

Two billion dollars. This is the investment made official by Emirates on Friday as part of a new move upmarket. One of the most obvious embodiments of this investment will be the new Premium class. This was officially launched in Paris - but also in London Heathrow and Sydney - on August 1. "We...

Is recycling in the air these days? It's an idea that's gaining ground every day when it comes to furniture, clothes, plastics and other used materials. The Envergure project takes this upcycling approach even further. At a time when many airlines are pushing the Airbus A380 into retirement, Frédéric Deleuze intends to give a new lease of life to...

How do you feel about the A380 landing again in Paris? Cédric Renard - It's a very strong feeling, with genuine emotion running across the faces of all the aviation enthusiasts. We wanted to mark this special event, because it represents a strong commitment on the part of Emirates to...

Another victim of the Covid-19 pandemic, Air France's fleet of nine Airbus A380s will not be returned to service once the crisis is over for the carrier. Air France had decided to ground these nine aircraft at the start of the pandemic, but the crisis hastened the decision to stop operating them. Originally,...

It's about time... Air France is one of the last major airlines not to have ordered new aircraft for its short- and medium-haul network for almost a decade. Some of the airline's aircraft on its short-haul routes are now flirting with the age of 18, a more than venerable age in the airline industry...

Emirates' decision was a fatal blow to the Airbus A380 programme, which will officially come to an end with the delivery of the last dozen aircraft of this type to the Dubai-based airline. At Air France, one of the A380's longest-standing airlines, with the first aircraft delivered in 2009, the first signs of disenchantment with the...

The A380 has been the cornerstone of Emirates' strategy for 20 years. But the Airbus has also meant that Emirates has missed out on a number of opportunities... In particular, services to secondary cities, an option that Emirates has often had to forego, with a fleet of high-capacity long-haul aircraft. So, for the past nine months, the airline has been fine-tuning a...

Not surprisingly, Airbus announced on Thursday the end of the A380 programme, and the date of the last delivery. Reviewing its flight plan, Emirates has decided to make a strategic shift, swapping its very large aircraft for smaller, easier to fill aircraft. "The consequence of this...

It was barely twelve years ago that the Airbus A380 made its first commercial flight, under the colours of Singapore Airlines. Its days now seem numbered. In fact, this aircraft, which can carry up to 600 passengers, has been only half a success. It is only present in the fleets of 15 international airlines worldwide, including Air France in Europe,...

It seems that the Airbus A380 has had a long life at Air France. The new management, led by Benjamin Smith, the new CEO, has announced that the airline will be reducing its A380 fleet by 50 %s, from 10 to 5 aircraft. The first two aircraft will be returned to their original...

Four years of work and no less than 850 million dollars will have been needed to develop the new cabin unveiled on 2 November by Singapore Airlines, and intended to equip the airline's Airbus A380s. The presentation attracted a great deal of attention from the international media, not least because it is the...

Since July, Paris is the fifth destination to welcome an Etihad A380 after London, Melbourne, New York and Sydney. The introduction of the A380 on the Abu Dhabi-Paris route will make it possible to offer a seamless end-to-end product between France and Australia, for example. Above all, it will introduce new products...

Have the Gulf companies taken notice of the latest ICCA rankings, which crowned Paris as the world's meetings capital? The fact remains that the French capital is attracting increased attention. A few days after the announcement by Emirates that it is to install a two-class A380 at Roissy and thus increase its capacity, it is Etihad's turn to announce new ambitions. The...