Others, including Etihad, go with a single-aisle layout.

In first class, some airlines have seats or suites arranged 1-2-1.Many airlines with suite-style seating go with 1-2-1. British Airways has kept its old Club World design and packs in a 2-4-2 configuration with yin-yang seating. Business class has more variation, depending on the airline's choice of seats.Premium economy offers more space, often 2-4-2 on the lower deck or 2-3-2 on the upper deck.Airbus has proposed an 11 across economy option, but this has yet to be tried. Economy class is arranged 3-4-3 on the lower deck, and often 2-4-2 when installed on the upper deck.Most airlines follow a similar pattern in their cabin layouts: Three class, Long Range - 517 passengers.Three class, Ultra Long Range - 489 passengers.It operates three different cabin layouts: Emirates shows well how this can vary between configurations. In reality, all airlines operate with multiple cabins. Norweigan tried the all-economy model for the A380, with little success. Boeing dropped it though once it opted to follow the point to point model. It tried twice (in 19) to generate interest in the 747X, stretching the 747 upper deck and incorporating parts of the 777 design. And even Boeing tried to follow the idea.It had a capacity of (not surprisingly) 860 (or up to 1000 in all economy), with three aisles. The Sukhoi KR-860 was a Russian proposal for a two-deck passenger or cargo aircraft.A bold plan, but it had too many design and operating challenges to proceed.

This was a huge aircraft, with two decks, four aisles, and a passenger capacity of over 900 alongside a whole deck for cargo.

Lockheed Martin released plans for a Large Subsonic Transport aircraft in 1996.

The project was launched in 1992, but despite interest from airlines, there were never any orders.

McDonnell Douglas designed the MD-12 two-deck aircraft long before Airbus.

There were several other alternatives at the time for such high capacity aircraft, none of which ever left the design stage, however. This strategy is based on operating more direct flights with smaller aircraft.Īirbus was not alone in believing in the development of very large aircraft for hub based travel. Boeing, on the other hand, developed the 777 at the same time based on point-to-point operations. It would appeal to airlines operating high capacity flights between hubs and key destinations. Korean Air.Airbus designed the A380 based on the hub and spoke operating methodology. Archived from the original on 24 February 2011. Archived from the original on 17 April 2015. 'Emirates Orders Trent 900 For Future A380s'.

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List of Boeing 787 orders and deliveries.

List of Airbus A350 orders and deliveries.

The following orders have been placed and deliveries made, from Airbus Orders & Deliveries data, since December 31, 2021 : Customer There were originally also 27 orders for the freighter version, the A380F, but when this programme was frozen following production delays, 20 A380F orders were cancelled and the remaining seven were converted to A380-800s. There are 251 firm orders by 14 customers for the passenger version of the Airbus A380-800, all of which have been delivered as of December 2021. An A380-800 in its original Airbus livery

A380 cockpit