While some of the superjumbo jets were retired during the COVID-19 pandemic, 189 A380s remain in active service worldwide.

The A380 has been flying for 18 years and has failed to find any application beyond its core role of ferrying hundreds of passengers.

Can the Airbus A380 'superjumbo' outlive the Boeing 747 'jumbo jet'? The answer depends somewhat on how that question is ...