Aircraft Industry: Airbus Delivers the 100th A380

Airbus A380

Airbus has delivered the 100th A380 superjumbo, handing the aircraft over to Malaysia Airlines on March 14 at the manufacturer’s Henri Ziegler Delivery Centre in Toulouse.

The aircraft is the sixth Airbus A380 for Malaysia Airlines (MAS), completing the airline’s A380 delivery schedule for now.

Now in its sixth year of commercial service, the A380 is flying with nine major airlines. To date, the worldwide fleet has carried some 36 million passengers in 100,000 flights.

Airbus says previous-generation very large aircraft (VLAs of 400 seats and above) would have required 140,000 flights to get to the same passenger total.

This reduction in flights brings essential relief to airport-congestion and the environment and has resulted in a corresponding saving of 5.7 million tonnes of CO2, according to the manufacturer.

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