How to Use superjumbo in a Sentence

superjumbo

noun

• There are several reasons why airlines are circling back to the superjumbo.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 11 July 2022
• And Lufthansa isn’t the only airline still on the superjumbo bandwagon.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 29 June 2022
• Airbus, which had hoped to sell a freighter version of its A380 superjumbo, abandoned its plans.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 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
• 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
• Almost two decades ago, Airbus bet big on its own giant, four-engine aircraft—the A380 superjumbo jet.
  — Robert Wall, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2018
• 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
• 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
• That's twelve feet longer than an Airbus A380 superjumbo civilian jetliner.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
• Emirates is the world’s biggest buyer of the A380, Airbus’s superjumbo.
  — Robert Wall, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Airlines including Lufthansa, Qantas and Air France grounded their superjumbo last year, at a time when the sharp drop in demand for air travel meant many planes were flying close to empty.
  — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 15 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The initiative includes adding more premium economy seats to its Airbus A380 planes—the double-decker superjumbo jet that only a handful of airlines still fly.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Sep. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Now several airlines -- including Emirates, British Airways and Singapore -- are offering long-haul flights on the superjumbo again.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 18 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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