The Airbus A380 is a four engine, wide-body, twin-deck, long haul aircraft introduced in 2007. It is the largest passenger plane in the world and can sit up to 800 people, even though it is used to seat 525 people by most airlines. The aircraft is the only one in the world to have a full two decks. The plane is so big and so heavy airports around the world had to strengthen their runways and taxiways for it to be able to pass without breaking them. The plane also has its own callsign on the radio "super" to warn for wake turbulence produced by this plane ie. "Speedbird 223 Super" . (Other wide-bodies have heavy and smaller planes have nothing after their flight number)
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