A look at why the A380 wasn't a good fit for the French national carrier.

PARIS — The first Air France A380 superjumbo took off from Paris on Friday, bound for New York with 380 passengers who had bid a total of $450,000 in a charity auction organized by the airline. “It’s ...

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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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael Goldstein is a journalist and playwright based in Los Angeles. MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - JANUARY 12: The Air France Airbus ...

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When planes perform spectacularly, we celebrate them. Sometimes, though, things go wrong. On Saturday, for example, passengers on Air France flight 066 from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris to Los ...

Air France is to take delivery of its third Airbus A380 in April and use the jet to conduct a daily A380 operation on its Johannesburg route. The SkyTeam carrier is to start flying the A380 on its ...

A team of investigators and engineers headed to Canada Sunday to inspect an Airbus A380 superjumbo operated by Air France which was forced to make an emergency landing after an engine explosion. The ...

Air France's first Airbus A380 is fitted in three-class configuration, although the carrier plans to have its entire long-haul fleet converted to to a four-class layout by the end of 2010. The first ...

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 plans to begin flying the super jumbo Airbus A380 jet from Atlanta to Paris starting next spring. As of March 31, 2019, Air France will operate one of its two daily flights from ...