A380 passenger test flights start
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An Airbus A380 super-jumbo takes off from southern France on its first test flight with passengers, as 474 of the firm's staff fill the seats.
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The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial airliner, took its first passengers aloft on a test flight, as the company announced a fresh management shakeup to grapple with delays plaguing the superjumbo.
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Flights from the Midlands to Shannon and Cork were launched last week as part of the Thomsonfly.com winter programme.
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TOULOUSE, France  - Airbus showed off its giant A380, a double-decked behemoth that could revolutionize long-haul flying, at a lavish ceremony Tuesday with European leaders gathered for the first official look at the world's largest passenger plane. Airbus SAS is betting its newfound status as the world's leading jet maker on the "superjumbo" that has a 79.85-metre wingspan, a tail as tall as a seven-storey building and cost &#36;13 billion US to develop.
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The Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger jet, took to the sky with a full load of passengers for the first time Monday, and the European aircraft maker announced further management changes in the wake of costly delays to the $13 billion jet program.
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Aviation authorities were set  on Tuesday to declare Airbus's mammoth new A380 aircraft safe  for commercial flight, capping six years of development for the  world's largest airliner, which has been hit by production  delays.
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The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, leaves Singapore for Sydney on its first commercial flight.
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Ryan Giggs leads the Wales squad off the diverted plane A Boeing 737 taking the Wales football squad from Cardiff to Prague has made an emergency landing in Bournemouth after the windscreen cracked.
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The Airbus A380 superjumbo completed the last leg of a gruelling 18-day test mission, flying home to its base in southern France to await approval from safety regulators.
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The world's biggest passenger plane is set to be unveiled for the first time - with more riding on it than just the 550 passengers the aircraft can accommodate.
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An Airbus A380 super jumbo performs its demonstration flight at the 46th International Paris Air Show at Le Bouget airport, north of Paris, in this June 16, 2005 file photo.Comment
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Deliveries of the Airbus A380 superjumbo passenger plane are set to be nearly two years behind their original schedule, the leading buyer of the jet, the Dubai-based airline Emirates, has revealed.
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Airbus shareholders have approved the launch of a new passenger jet, aimed at challenging Boeing&#39;s 7E7. A spokesman for the European consortium says the new widebody â-he A-350 â -l be
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Airbus has completed a globe-spanning test flight for the A380 and expected to obtain airworthiness certification for the world's biggest commercial airliner in mid-December.
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Passengers impressed with aeronautical behemoth The Airbus A380 today entered commercial service with an inaugural seven hour flight from Singapore to Sydney, in the process wowing passengers who'd snapped up seats in Singapore Airlines' charity eBay ticket auction.â¦
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A paying passenger reports for the BBC News website about his experiences on the first commercial A380 flight.
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JUST days after its launch, Airbus&#39;s brand-new jet last night won its first customer. Spain&#39;s Air Europa said it is to order 10 of the new 245-seater A350-800 aircraft with two further options.