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European Consortium Airbus Shows Off New 550-Passenger Jumbo Jet.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2000 by Fairbank, Katie
Jul. 29--FARNBOROUGH, England--Imagine a world of jumbo jets large enough to carry 550 people and still have room for casinos, shops and suites.
Then conjure up the image of those 550 people arriving at the airport parking lot, the ticket counter and the gate at roughly the same time, all ready for the same long-haul flight.
"It's mind-boggling," said Darryl Jenkins, director of the Aviation Institute at George Washington University.
The European consortium Airbus believes the idea will get off the ground.
The jet maker used this week's Farnborough International 2000 air show to show off its design for what will be the world's largest passenger plane: the double-deck A3XX. And it was bragging to competitors such as Boeing that it...
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