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Sep 29, 2020 · Published Sep 29, 2020. Airbus has the biggest range of aircraft globally, from the regional Airbus A220 to the lumbering A380. What is the difference between these two aircraft? Let's have a look! How does the A380 compare to the smallest Airbus plane, the A220? Photo: Getty Images. Different designs for different markets.
- Nicholas Cummins
The smallest and youngest aircraft in the fleet, the Airbus A220 Family, was initially known as the Bombardier C-Series. The CSeries was introduced in 2008 to bridge the gap between prior Bombardier aircraft and those made by Airbus and Boeing.
Jun 30, 2022 · The Airbus A380-800 is the world's largest passenger aircraft with a maximum capacity of 853. It seats 193 more passengers than the second-largest passenger plane, the Boeing 747-400....
In August 2008, the ICAO issued revised approach separations of 4 nmi (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) for Super (another A380), 6 nmi (11 km; 6.9 mi) for Heavy, 7 nmi (13 km; 8.1 mi) for medium/small, and 8 nmi (15 km; 9.2 mi) for light.
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The A380 leverages Airbus’ expertise in aircraft design, sharing a large degree of commonality in systems, flight deck, procedures, and maintainability with the fly-by-wire A320, A330/A340 and A350 families. Pilots do not need extensive training to transfer from one aircraft type to another, increasing their productivity and reducing the ...
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The aircraft was the smallest in Airbus's product range, and was developed coincidentally at the same time as the largest commercial aircraft in history, the Airbus A380. First called A319M5 in as early as March 1995, it was shorter by 0.79-metre (2 ft 7 in) ahead of the wing and 1.6 metres (5 ft 3 in) behind. [7]
As the A330neo Family’s largest member, the A330-900 retains the fuselage length of Airbus’ A330-300 variant to accommodate between 260 and 300 seats in a typical three-class layout, or up to 460 in economy class.
