Etihad Engineering has completed a six-year heavy maintenance check on the first in a series of Airbus A380 aircraft. This was after a period of secure ground storage. Preparing the A380 for its ...

Eleven years ago, the Airbus A380 entered commercial service with Singapore Airlines. In the time since then it has become the queen of the skies. It’s a double-decker airliner, capable of flying 550 ...

Which aircraft tips the scales?

The FINANCIAl — Dubai, UAE, 29 May 2018- Emirates Engineering has successfully accomplished the first complete replacement of landing gear on A6-EDF, the first Emirates Airbus A380 aircraft to have ...

What can replace the superjumbo?

Etihad Airways Engineering and Airbus have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work jointly on the development of a new A380 MRO Services offering. Airbus and Etihad Airways Engineering will ...

To reduce fuel consumption, Airbus used extremely lightweight materials in its flagship A380. Now cracks have appeared in the wings, and repairs will cost the company hundreds of millions of euros.

A fault on the new A380 superjumbo which caused the grounding of every one of the jets has been blamed on British engineering. Airbus has now traced the cause of small cracks developing on the wings ...

While the A380 and 747 remain marvels of aviation, their fuel efficiency is no longer at the cutting edge.