The Qantas A380 offers 484 seats, including 14 first class, 64 business class and 35 premium economy class. That's 10 percent more seats than the Boeing 747. But where the A380 surges ahead of its smaller jumbo jet cousins is with fuel economy. The …

Overall, each has almost a decade of business on the books. Boeing and Airbus have been raising production rates on their popular single-aisle airplanes. Boeing is considering raising rates once again – to a record 52 a month – on its 737 jet. "It's a …

Emirates currently flies a Boeing 777-300ER to DFW but is switching to the double decker Airbus. The A380 has 489 seats – 223 more than Emirates' Boeing 777 – including 14 First Class Private Suites, 76 lie-flat Business Class seats, and 399 Economy …

Boeing and Airbus expect their twin-aisle, mid-size, long-range jets to reduce fuel costs by about a fifth. Both plane makers expect about 40,000 new aircraft worth more than $4.5 trillion to be required by the global airline industry over the next 20 …

Nearly a year since Boeing got what may be the largest package of tax breaks and other incentives in modern business history from the Washington Legislature, the airplane giant is moving another 2,000 jobs out of the Northwest. Most of the jobs will …

Electroimpact will design and build the machines in a new 30,000-square-foot, temperature-controlled building now under construction in Mukilteo, two miles from Boeing's Everett widebody jet plant. Hartmann said it should be finished later this year.

The company said it would offer Seattle-area engineers positions in its commercial jet business when possible and provide “job search resources, retirement seminars, and career counseling services” to those who cannot transfer. Boeing is the largest …

The double-deck, four-engine jet was greeted with a traditional water-cannon salute, then taxied to a two-storey gate that was configured just for the behemoth. The inaugural … Qantas previously flew the Sydney-Dallas route with the Boeing 747, which …

Asked how long it would take to deliver the first A350 to Qatar Airways, which recently delayed taking delivery of its first A380 in a dispute over cabin fittings, program chief Didier Evrard said the airline's first jet was ready to start pre-delivery …