{"id":254619,"date":"2025-07-21T23:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-airbus-a380-high-takeoff-weight\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:00:17","slug":"why-the-airbus-a380-has-such-a-high-takeoff-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=254619","title":{"rendered":"Why The Airbus A380 Has Such A High Takeoff Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2043927\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airbus-a380-facts-list\/\" >Airbus A380 is the world&#8217;s only full-length twin-deck aircraft<\/a><\/span>, boasting the largest maximum seating capacity of any aircraft around today. It can carry 248 more passengers than its closest counterpart, the Boeing 747-8. That is the equivalent of the seating capacity of an <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739506\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/a321neo\/\"  >Airbus A321neo<\/a><\/span>, which has a maximum seating capacity of 244 passengers. The Airbus A380 was also designed to serve ultra-long-haul routes, which required the aircraft to carry more fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Airbus A380 has the world&#8217;s largest MTOW in order to meet its payload and range requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[426,898,396,17498],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-takeoffweight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254620,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254619\/revisions\/254620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}