In 1988 engineers at the Airbus headquarters in Toulouse started work on a highly ambitious project, the possibility of a commercial UHCA (ultra-high-capacity aircraft). By 1993 Boeing and Deutsche Aerospace, a member of the Airbus consortium, surprisingly declared they were joining forces on a VLCT (very large commercial transport) feasibility study, with the aim to create a product in a shared partnership that would lead in the limited market [7]. Nevertheless two years later this study was abandoned due to viability from increasing development costs. This lead to Airbus announcing in June 1994 that they were to develop their own long-range UHCA, named the A3XX. This development project was the start of what became the A380, the worlds’ first superjumbo jet. [6]
The Airbus A380 was first put into service on 25th October 2005 flying from Singapore to Sydney. One of the main purposes was to try and gain some of the large-aircraft market that was so heavily dominated by Boeing, especially with the 747. However unlike the Boeing 747, the top deck of the A380 extends the full length of the fuselage meaning there is an extra 40% more floor space [5]. This means the A380 is certified to carry up to 853 passengers in a one-class configuration, although no airliners have chosen this configuration to date. The passenger capacity varies on the aircraft that are currently in service depending on the airline, at the present time Korean Air has the fewest seats at 407 [9]. This is made up of 12 first and 301 economy seats on the lower deck and 94 business class seats on the upper deck. Lufthansa on the other hand has some aircraft with a capacity of 526 [8]. This is achieved by having 420 economy seats on the lower deck, whilst the upper dec...
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[5] http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/boeing39s-747-8-vs-a380-a-titanic-tussle-205137/
[6] Airbus A380 superjumbo of the 21st century, guy Norris and mark Wagner, published 2005
[7] http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/creating-a-titan-199071/
[8] https://www.lufthansa.com/uk/en/Seat-maps
[9] http://www.koreanair.com/local/na/gd/eng/au/of/au_of_10.jsp
[10] http://www.iata.org/pressroom/pr/Pages/2013-10-31-01.aspx
[11] http://www.seatplans.com/airlines/
[12] http://www.airbus.com/aircraftfamilies/passengeraircraft/a380family/innovation/
[13] http://www.fzt.haw-hamburg.de/pers/Scholz/dglr/hh/text_2008_01_30_A380.pdf
[14] http://www.rosler-aerospace.com/uploads/media/aerospace_edition_2701_en_02.pdf
[15] http://www.airbus.com/innovation/eco-efficiency/design/
[16] http://www.mcgill.ca/files/iasl/Dan_Cohen-Nir.pdf
In the 1970s, TACA Airlines entered its jet age when it acquired its first jet, A BAC One Eleven. The One Eleven was used between the 1970s and the early 1980s, then later replaced by the Boeing 737-200. Until 1980, TACA Airlines was owned by a Unites States company and was headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana under administration of the Kriete Family of El Salvador. During the 1980s, TACA Airlines made several upgrades to its fleet by substituting older turboprops and the One Eleven airliner for more fuel efficient airliners such as the 737-300 and the 737-400. In the 1990s, TACA Airlines became the principal user and launching customer of the Airbus A320 model in Latin America. The Airbus A320 were substitutes for the aging Boeing 737-200/-300/-400 seri...
...passengers (Fly Air North. 2013). The airline also has one Boeing 737-400, which holds up to 156 passengers. The fleet also includes two Boeing 737-200,with a passenger capacity of 120 seats and five Hawker Siddeley 748 with a passenger capacity from 4 to 40 depending on cargo configuration (Fly Air North, 2013).
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