The trophy of The Biggest Airliner is now belong to Airbus A380, which has two full-length passenger deck. Its pre-production designation code was A3XX. The length of A380 is longer than the length of a football field.

Here’s the Airbus A380 Dimensions in metric terms:

• Overall length: 73 meters
• Height: 24,1 meters
• Fuselage diameter: 7,14 meters
• Maximum cabin width: 6,58 meters (main deck) and 5,92 meters (upper deck)
• Cabin length: 49,90 meters
• Wingspan: 79,8 meters (geometric)
• Wing area: 845 square meter (reference)
• Wing sweep: 33,5 degrees (25% chord)
• Wheelbase: 30,4 meters
• Wheel track: 14,3 meters

The plane has a total of three decks. Two staircase are available between main and upper deck, one majestic staircase in the front, and small one in the back. Although the lower deck outfit is used for cargo, it can also be equipped to accommodate special passenger utilization. It’s not possible to furnished the lower deck to become a child care center or others function. Airline may decide what the purpose of the lower deck would be.

The maximum seating depends on class configuration, with approximatelly 840 passengers in one-class configuration, and 555 passengers in three class configuration. Compare to the airliner Boeing 747-400 dimensions, the A380 has thirty to fifty percent more seats to offer. The A380 has the ability to fly a long distance of 10,000 miles. The engines are capable to lift up the 1,2 million pounds of the airplane’s weight for any kind of flight distance.

Interests of operating this airplane has been expressed by ten airlines. 66 planes were ordered right after the official launching on December 19th, 2000. Following are the airlines that has ordered the A380: Emirates, Lufthansa, Air France, Federal Express, Qatar Airways, Qantas, Virgin Atlantic, and Singapore Airlines.

The production started on January 23rd in 2002, and more orders received from different airlines. Singapore Airlines would be the launch customer for the Airbus A380. This happened on 2007. Australian’s Qantas Airways, and UAE’s Emirates Airlines following to operate the A380.   

Airbus claimed that because the new technology, the A380 will be more efficient than Boeing 747. Airbus A380 uses a new state of the art engines, which has less fuel consumption, less noise, and making cheaper flight possible.

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