The Airbus A380 is the largest passenger airliner ever built, with a maximum takeoff weight up to about 575 metric tons, or roughly 1.27 million pounds, depending on the version. In a typical ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael Goldstein is a journalist and playwright based in Los Angeles. The last A380 rolled out of the Airbus plant in Toulouse, ...

The Airbus A380 is one of the largest aircraft ever built. With two full-length decks and a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 1.2 million pounds, the quadjet was designed for ultra-high-capacity, ...

The aircraft will be replaced by other highly capable, but smaller, widebodies.

If you have taken a relatively recent flight inside the U.S., chances are pretty strong it was either on board a Boeing 737 or an Airbus A320, the two best-selling commercial airplanes in the world.