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TRAVEL, TOURS & LEISURE
With a wingspan that stretches nearly the length of a football field and is 15 metres wider than any commercial plane in the air today, the Airbus A380 ‘superjumbo’ is the largest civil aircraft ever built. Designed to carry 555 passengers in a three-class arrangement, it has one-third more seating capacity than a Boeing 747. A planned stretched version would carry 656 passengers, and an all-economy-class configuration more than 800 passengers.