How to Use superjumbo in a Sentence

superjumbo

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  • Check out our guide on where to fly on a superjumbo here.
    — Francesca Street, CNN, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Singapore Air is the only Asian airline to fly the Concorde and the first in the world to fly the superjumbo A380.
    — Abhishek Vishnoi, Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2017
  • Airbus, which had hoped to sell a freighter version of its A380 superjumbo, abandoned its plans.
    — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Emirates is the world’s biggest buyer of the A380, Airbus’s superjumbo.
    — Robert Wall, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2018
  • The job of assembling Airbus’s A380 superjumbo in its Toulouse factory accounts for only 4% of the work required to make it.
    — The Economist, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Almost two decades ago, Airbus bet big on its own giant, four-engine aircraft—the A380 superjumbo jet.
    — Robert Wall, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2018
  • The biggest A380 superjumbo wings are taken to a local seaport for shipping.
    — Benedikt Kammel, Bloomberg.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • That included no new orders and two cancellations for the A380 superjumbo, whose future is under threat due to low sales.
    — Reuters, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2018
  • The manufacturer won a lifeline for the superjumbo with a January order for 20 new planes from Emirates, the only airline to have made the model a central plank of its fleet.
    — Tom Lavell, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2018
  • The uptake from the world’s most populous country is far behind the original projections of Airbus, which had designed the superjumbo with Asian demand in mind.
    — Ania Nussbaum, Bloomberg.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • But the superjumbo never took off in the way Airbus hoped -- and the airline manufacturer announced plans to discontinue the aircraft in 2019.
    — CNN, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Cities across the nation are reconsidering the value of municipal airports in the era of superjumbo jets and budget cuts.
    — Steve Friess, New York Times, 18 July 2017
  • But the market for the superjumbo that can seat more than 600 passengers has softened with airlines preferring other models.
    — Robert Wall, WSJ, 4 July 2018
  • Singapore Airlines isn't the only airline to be operating one-off short-haul superjumbo flights this fall.
    — Francesca Street, CNN, 18 Oct. 2021
  • That's twelve feet longer than an Airbus A380 superjumbo civilian jetliner.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Airbus formalized plans to upgrade its A380 superjumbo with fuel-saving winglets as the European planemaker seeks to revive sales of the flagship model.
    — Benjamin Katz, The Seattle Times, 18 June 2017
  • Earlier this year Airbus scrapped its A380 superjumbo jet.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 18 June 2019
  • Yet for all their popularity with travelers, the final version of the 747 and Europe’s superjumbo never caught on commercially as airlines turned to twin-engine aircraft for long-range flights.
    — Julie Johnsson, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2020
  • There are few things like seeing a giant Airbus A380 superjumbo being put through its paces as a crowd of industry insiders and aviation enthusiasts looks on from below.
    — Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY, 19 June 2017
  • Aviation geeks around the world must have let out a collective sigh on Wednesday with news that the final Airbus A380 superjumbo jet ever to be produced departed from the manufacturer’s headquarters in Toulouse.
    — Eric Rosen, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • An Emirates Airline superjumbo jet has landed at Beirut’s international airport as Lebanon looks to sustain a revival of its tourism industry.
    — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The airline manufacturer delivered the last of its double-decker superjumbo jets to Emirates on Tuesday, according to a press release from the company.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Airbus is moving to a similar manufacturing pace for its A380 superjumbo after landing a lifesaving order from Emirates Airline last month.
    — Julie Johnsson, chicagotribune.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Airbus overestimated airlines' appetite for the superjumbo.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 15 Dec. 2021

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