Bigger Isn’t Always Better

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The Airbus A380 family: the overambitious, oversized, and over-budget drama queen of the skies. First, we got the A380-800—a flying cruise ship that’s as subtle as a midlife crisis in a Ferrari. At 73 m long and weighing 560 tonnes, it’s already a colossal beast that guzzles fuel like your uncle downs pints at a wedding. But Airbus wasn’t satisfied with merely bankrupting airlines with one giant—they decided to draw up plans for its bigger, even greedier sibling: the A380-900.