With its striking size comes a striking operating bill, forcing airlines to reevaluate.

The superjumbo can be powered by two different turbofans.

The Engine Alliance – the provider for engines for the Emirates fleet of Airbus A380 aircraft has completed its 100th GP7200 engine. The 100 th engine is destined for an Air France airplane. “We are ...

SINGAPORE/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Singapore Airlines will replace engines on three of its Airbus A380 planes after finding oil stains on them, almost a week after Australian rival Qantas grounded its A380 ...

CTS Engines opened a facility in Coral Springs, Florida, in February to provide MRO services for the GP7200 powerplant. Credit: CTS Engines CHICAGO—Despite expectations that the Airbus A380 fleet ...

Fatigue cracking caused by the axial misalignment of an area of counter‑boring within the inner diameter of a stub pipe appears to be the cause of an engine failure on a Qantas A380 jet flying from ...

The Airbus A380 is the largest passenger airliner ever built, with a maximum takeoff weight up to about 575 metric tons, or roughly 1.27 million pounds, depending on the version. In a typical ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Planemaker Airbus is asking airlines that fly its A380 superjumbos to have any Rolls Royce engines inspected following the engine failure this week of an A380 operated by Qantas ...

When discussing Qantas flight 31, we need more science and less hyperbolic linkbait. Cooler heads should prevail. This week brought us the so-called “engine explosion” and “crash landing” of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 4-foot-long tool was left inside the engine of an Airbus A380, a safety report found. The Qantas jet flew 294 hours of flights ...

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has underlined the risk of foreign object debris after a Qantas Airways A380 operated 34 cycles with a turning tool in an engine. The turning tool was ...

A Qantas Airbus A380 suffered damage after an aerobridge hit its engine before the aircraft was due to operate a flight. The incident took place on 12 July as the aircraft was due to operate flight ...