A380 superjumbo lands in Sydney
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The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, lands in Sydney on its first commercial flight.
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Blog: The gigantic new Airbus A380 could carry up to 1,000 souls.
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A British Airways plane en route from Berlin to London made an emergency landing at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport after a bomb threat was received, the Dutch authorities said.
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A TURBOPROP plane with 73 people on board crashed overnight as it landed in western Denmark, but no-one was seriously injured, the airline said. via News.com.au
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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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Virgin Atlantic Airways today launched daily non-stop scheduled services between Hong Kong and Sydney using an Airbus 340-600. Sir Richard Branson landed at Sydney aboard the inaugural flight from London, operated
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A British Airways (BA) plane en route from Berlin to London made an emergency landing at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport after a bomb threat was received.
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Passengers leave a Virgin Blue jetliner after arriving at Maroochy Airport, on Queensland&#39;s Sunshine Coast. Photo:Andy Zakeli.
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Wiring woes will cost Airbus dear The patience of airlines waiting to get their hands on the Airbus A380 is beginning to wear thin following an announcement yesterday that just one example of the "Superjumbo" would be delivered in 2007, as opposed to the nine previously promised by Airbus parent company EADS.â¦
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The first Airbus A380 super jumbo passenger jet is towed inside a hangar in Blagnac, near Toulouse, southwestern France, Saturday, Jan.
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Auckland Airport is spending around $25m to upgrade runways and taxiways so it can handle the new Airbus A380 superjumbo.
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(InfoWorld) - An online auction of tickets for the first commercial A380 flight is nearing an end, with one bidder spending S$153,000 (US$101,514) for a first-class seat on the Singapore AirlinesÂ flight. WhenÂ the A380 takes to the skies next month, it will become the largest airliner in commercial use. Built by Airbus Industries, the aircraft will hold around 555 passengers in a typical configuration. However, Singapore Airlines -- the first to use the aircraft -- opted for a configuration that holds fewer than 480 passengers. Singapore Airlines auctioned off tickets for the first A380 flightÂ on eBay's Singaporean Web site, with all proceeds going to charity. With 24 seats left to sell on Sept. 20, the airline had sold 638 tickets for both legs of the Oct. 25 round-trip flight from Singapore to Sydney and raised S$1.9 million (US$1.26 million). That money will be split among several charities: Singapore's Community Chest; the Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick, and The Children's Hospital at Westmead; and MÃ©decins Sans FrontiÃ¨res. The S$153,000 bid for a Singapore Airlines Suites ticket was the most expensive ticket sold during the auction, while an economy-class seat on the return leg from Sydney to Singapore was the cheapest ticket sold at S$853. By comparison, a single, round-trip ticket from Singapore to Sydney is priced at S$900 on the airline's Web site. Some tickets were sold in blocks, including a group of three Singapore Airlines Suites tickets, two business-class seats, and an economy-class ticket sold to a Singaporean bidder for S$85,280. Singapore Airlines said the largest percentage of successful bidders came from Australia, representing 15 percent of the total. Singapore came next at 11 percent, followed by the U.K. (6 percent), U.S. (4 percent), and Germany (3 percent). The youngest successful bidder was a San Francisco man who will turn 22 on the day of the flight, Singapore Airlines said. The oldest successful bidder was a 76-year-old man from Vancouver, it said. The airline said 2,000 bidders registered for the auction and paid a security deposit that qualified them to bid. Â
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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 Airbus A380 started a global circumnavigation which will take in the South and North Poles on the last of a series of test flights before it applies for its air safety certificate.
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A historic passenger jet flight from Australia to Antarctica touched down smoothly on a blue ice runway Friday, launching the only regular airlink between the continents.
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MUNICH, Germany  - Planemaker Airbus' A380  superjumbo project is running 1.45 billion euros ($1.93  billion) over budget because of work to improve the efficiency  and weight of the aircraft, the co-head of parent company EADS  said.
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Air France-KLM have said it plans to use one of its first Airbus A380 superjumbos on the Paris to Tokyo route from 2009 to boost flight capacity to Japan's congested Narita airport.