The Airbus A380 is the world's largest airliner, and although it was a commercial failure, it was used by several flag ...

This week Air France announced that it will retire its fleet of Airbus A380 double deckers by 2022 instead of making a significant investment to update them. The carrier said that it will now focus ...

During the Paris Air Forum on June 13, 2025, Air France-KLM CEO Benjamin Smith stated that the airline group has no regrets about retiring the Airbus A380, as the aircraft was not bringing profits ...

Air France’s fleet of Airbus A380s this week became the latest victim of the COVID-19 pandemic after the airline confirmed that its remaining nine aircraft would not be returning to service. The ...

Air France-KLM intends to replace the French flag carrier’s fleet of 10 Airbus A380s with no more than nine long-haul twinjets. Chief executive Ben Smith said during a results briefing today that the ...

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PARIS—Air France has definitively ended Airbus A380 operations, bringing forward an existing plan to phase out the superjumbo following the coronavirus outbreak. “In the context of the current ...

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An Airbus A380 touched down yesterday at Montreal-P.E. Trudeau airport (in Quebec, Canada) for the first time, arriving from Paris-Charles de Gaulle. The very wide-bodied aircraft is continuing its ...

The world's largest airliner, the Airbus A380, took a step closer to the aviation archives on Wednesday as Air France said it would permanently axe its grounded fleet and sources said Emirates was in ...

Air France's third Airbus A380 will also be deployed on its Johannesburg service before the French flag-carrier turns to Tokyo as its next route for the aircraft. The airline is to reduce frequency to ...