The largest passenger plane in history, an Airbus A380, was sitting at LAX when I passed through this evening. It had flown from France and arrived in L.A. Monday morning, the second to land in the U.S. (another with guest passengers came into JFK minutes before this plane had landed at LAX). If nothing else, our pilot was excited enough to mention it.
Mercy, it is humongous. It is one-third bigger than a 747. The wingspan is 87 yards across. It weighs 1.2 million pounds and will hold 555 passengers.
And with all economy-class seating it will carry… 853 passengers! Mercy, for sure.