Largest passenger: Airbus A380

In this category, the Airbus A380 in the 800 modification takes first place. This is the largest production airliner in the world: its height is 24.1 meters, its length is 72.8 meters, its wingspan is 79.8 meters, it can carry a total of up to 853 people (in single-class configuration) over a distance of 15,700 km on its two decks.

It is the aircraft that today flies the second and third longest commercial flights – from Auckland, New Zealand, to Dubai (about 17 hours) and from Dallas, Texas, to Sydney, Australia (about 16 hours). During this time, the planes cover about a third of the length of the equator (the first longest commercial flight since February 2017 is on a Qatar Airways flight from Oakland to Doha on a Boeing 777-200LR).

Airbus plans to create enlarged versions of this airliner – the even more capacious A380-900 for 900 passengers (all in economy class), as well as a cargo version A380F, which will be the second after the Mriya in terms of cargo capacity. And both of them, presumably, will be even longer in length and wingspan. So far, however, no such aircraft has been built: there are not enough orders for them.

Despite the capacity, in 2021 the largest passenger plane was withdrawn from production. A total of 254 machines were produced, and so far carriers continue to use the Airbus A380.