At 73 meters long and 24 meters tall, the A380 is the world's largest passenger jet. Depending on configuration, A380s can seat as many as 850 people. Lufthansa's planes fit around 520 passengers.

European planemaker Airbus delivered Deutsche Lufthansa AG its first A380 superjumbo Wednesday, allowing Germany's biggest airline to transport more than 520 passengers on a single aircraft.

The Airbus A380 is the largest commercial airplane in the world. It is 237 feet long, 79 feet high and weighs 1.3 million pounds.

The densest current A380 configurations have between 507 and 538 seats. Air France, Lufthansa, Emirates and Thai Airways are among the airlines flying the aircraft with in those layouts with more ...

Lufthansa's fifth 380 will fly Frankfurt-JFK starting Feb. 8. 2011. Initially the flight will operate twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays, departing Frankfurt at 11:05 a.m., arriving JFK at 1:35 p.m.

We will be welcoming you back on board our Airbus A380s, too. We decided today to put the A380, which continues to enjoy great popularity, back into service at Lufthansa in summer 2023.

For plane builder Airbus and German airline Lufthansa AG, the A380’s first flight to North America on Monday is a chance to show off the superjumbo to potential U.S. buyers and to the airports ...

The double-decker with 509 seats has about 80% more capacity than Lufthansa’s current plane flying the Boston to Munich route, which is the Airbus A340-600, the company noted.