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Airbus Loses Order for 840-Seat ‘Flying Sardine Can’ Superjumbos

Reading Time: 2 minutes Airbus Group SE lost an order for two A380 superjumbos from Indian Ocean carrier Air Austral, which had aimed to fit the planes with the highest-capacity seating layout in the history of civil aviation. The aircraft, whose planned 840-seat configuration had led them to be widely labeled by the media as “flying sardine cans,” were […]