In development for many years prior to its first flight to the US in 2007, the Airbus A380 is the world’s largest commercial airliner flying in the
skies today (by passenger seat numbers, not physical aircraft size). The jet, with two floors of passengers, has the ability to carry up to 853
passengers in a single-class (economy) seating arrangement, or, more reasonably, 544 passengers seated in four-class configuration
(first, business, premium-economy and economy). Furthermore, the seating capacity of such an airliner allows it to replace multiple routes
which is a modern approach to the reduction of air traffic congestion at many larger airports. Naturally, the aircraft exudes all the modern
amenities passengers now come to expect in such a large jetliner, all while offering the most modern avionics in the cockpit.
Currently, the following airlines fly the A380; Singapore, Emirates, Qantas, Air France, Lufthansa, Korean Air,
China Southern, Malaysia, Thai, Asiana, British Airways, Qatar and Etihad.
Images shown here were taken at JFK
over a three day period in late March, 2007, when the factory-livery A380 flew from Frankfurt, Germany, landing
on runway 22L. More information about this aircraft may be found at the Airbus website.
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