Airbus 380 at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

The biggest airplane in the world visited Holland this summer. The Airbus 380 received a warm welcome at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol on Thursday the 15th of July. It’s the first time an airplane this big and heavy landed in the Netherlands.

Gigantic
The Airbus plane landed at 10 AM and left, after a few tests, in the afternoon. These tests were necessary for the operational settlement and to see how Schiphol will handle a gigantic airplane like this.

The airplane of the European concern Airbus has two floors and can transport 853 passengers. De Aribus 380 is a wide-body airplane, which means that there are two or more aisles and the diameter of the fuselage is 6 meter or more. The first commercial flight of the Airbus 380 was on October the 25th in 2007.

The reason Holland had to wait this long for welcoming the Airbus is because the airplane was too heavy to land. The airstrips were too short, the gates too narrow and the viaducts too weak to carry the weight. Luckily all this has been adjusted so the airplane could land safely.

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