FedEx ordered Airbus A380-800F aircraft, becoming the launch customer for the freighter version of the European superjumbo airliner. The U.S. package-hauler ordered 10 of the planes for an ...

The last Airbus A380 ever made has been delivered to Emirates, marking the end of an era for the superjumbo that was once touted as the future of aviation until airlines cast it aside for smaller ...

Airbus offers the A380-800F in basic and option variants. Both are powered either by General Electric-Pratt & Whitney Engine Alliance GP7200s or Rolls-Royce Trent 900s, generating 76,500lb (340kN ...

He says the A380-800F freighter version in particular is attracting "a lot of interest". Only 10 of the orders taken to-date are firm, the rest being commitments.

The freighter version, the A380-800F will carry a payload of 150 tonnes (330,000lbs) over 10,400km/5,600nm.

FedEx said it will take delivery of 10 A380-800F aircraft beginning in 2008, although it hoped to begin receiving them sooner. The planes will exceed the capacity of FedEx’s current workhorse MD ...

The A380 was created as an answer to the original jumbo jet, the Boeing 747. But for a while, Airbus and Boeing briefly pondered the unthinkable: working together to create a new superjumbo. In ...

Airbus received a further major blow on Tuesday when FedEx said it canceled its order for 10 A380-800F freighter aircraft because of delivery delays, opting instead to buy planes from rival U.S ...

Airbus is evaluating options after a German court banned a proposed runway extension at Hamburg-Finkenwerder Airport. The runway length is considered insufficient for flight testing of the ...

But Thai Airways is hardly alone in viewing the A380 as more a part of its past than future — even as the jet still garners the affection of the 300 million passengers who have flown on it since ...

The Emirates A380 docked at Logan following its test flight from Dubai. A second jet bridge needed to be added to service the planes two levels. W. Marc Bernsau 1 of 24 By David L. Harris ...