What do you think is better a Boeing 747 or an Airbus-A380 and why??

Question

I like the Boeing 747 because it has been around forever and it is way better with fuel then the Airbus-A380

Answer 1

I prefer the B747. I know it's not as big, but that's a good thing. Imagine the baggage claim for the A380....
Also, I agree, the 747 has always been around, so we can trust it; the A380 has been delayed by more than a year because of technical problems. Also, the 747 looks nicer than the A380 in my opinion.
My final reason for liking the 747 is the fact that it's a Boeing. (I've never been a big fan of Airbus.)

Answer 2

Though I am a Boeing fan, it is hard to say right now since the A380 isn't in service yet. What the A380 has going for it is that it is newer so it will have some features the 747 doesn't have. But Boeing is coming out with the 747-8 which will be awesome. I am really glad Boeing decided to update the 747 because I can't picture the 747 being retired from production like the 757 and 767 are.

I think anything bigger than a 747 would be kind of bad. Can you imagine how long it will take to board and deplane? Also waiting in line to use the bathroom or waiting for your food to be served? Since the A380 will be used for long flights, people will be getting up and walking around. Try walking around the cabin with so many other people doing the same thing. I am not a big fan of crowded places.

Answer 3

A380 Any day! I've flown on both aircraft several times. The A380's cabin is wider giving you a sense of spaciousness. It's got much better air con making you feel less drowsy. It's also much quieter inside. If you sit upstairs it's pretty silent, almost certainly no need for noise cancelling headphones! I was looking through some of the other posts, couldn't believe that someone made a comment about the A380 not being able to handle a lightning strike! Do you not know that planes are regularly struck by lightning & are all designed to take lightning strikes. The A380 went through extensive testing before being put into service. The 747 is iconic but is really starting to look dated now. There's only so much you can do with 1960's technology! I Sense the 747-8 will not sell well other than for carrying Freight.

Answer 4

The Boeing 777 would be better than those two.


As for the Boeing 747.

It probably has a decade or so until it reached its lifetime, not bad considering that it wasn't meant to last that long. The Boeing 747'S succesor probably would be a cross between the Boeing 747, the Boeing 777, and the Boeing 787.


As for the Airbus A380

While some of its growing pains are the same as the Boeing 747's, some of them are unlike the Boeing 747's. A full double deck airliner has some new challenges.

Answer 5

Very few people have flown on A380s, though they will get certification in the next couple of weeks.

The A380 is way better than the 747 for fuel, more than 10% better than the latest 747s. Better than the projected 747-800 too. Otherwise there would be no point in building the A380 and nobody would have ordered it.

The A380 will be smoother to fly than the 747, more weight and all that, like driving a bigger car. The systems are at least as reliable as the 747s systems.

A persistant love of the 747 is like my love of the DC3, it's a great aircraft, but it's yesterday's news. The 747 has had a long run, but rising fuel prices and conjested routes lead to the inevitable requirement for larger and more efficient aircraft.

A 747 has four separate hydraulic systems and they are supposed to remain flyable on 2, stopping it once it reaches the ground could be interesting, depending which two you lost. There haven't been cable backups since the 707.

Boeing has been slightly less than honest in leading people to believe that their aircraft were less computer controlled than the A320, regardless of how it's done there are no direct mechanical linkages between the flying controls and the control surfaces and engines. Even if there was a throttle cable going to the engine it would still be talking to the computers that actually run all modern engines, it would be impossible to use these big engines if the pilot had to manage them directly, just like car engines, the engine management system is the thing that is really controlling the fuel scheduling.

Answer 6

A lot of you are simply too young to remember that the 747 early days were full of the same problems the A380 is having now. In the future the 747 will fall to the wayside as the future will demand larger and larger planes as the public isn't keen to allow new or enlarged airports to handle the ever increasing loads of passengers. In the past they would simply add another flight to carry more passengers now the skies are saturated with planes at all major airports so the only option is to build bigger planes carrying much more people at a hop. The 747 has gone as big as it can go. The A380 is just starting out and has plenty of expansion room left in it's airframe. So my pick is the A380 while the A380 uses more fuel than a 747 it carries nearly twice the cargo and 100+ passengers more thus cutting the need for another plane to take up the 747's slack.

Answer 7

The Boeing 747 is proven but is starting to show its age. There is NO manual reversion in 747s. All you have to control the plane if the four hydraulic systems fail is differential engine thrust and the stabilizer trim. The only Boeings that manually revert are the 707, 727, and 737. The 747 does have mechanical/hydraulic (no fly-by-wire) that does give an extra element of human control to the jet (the pilot has the last say, not a computer).

The Airbus is unproven and is having teething problems but introduces many advanced features. Every Airbus I have ever flown on has been underpowered (especially the A340) and poorly laid out. Also it seem Airbus makes systems unecessarily complicated.

Every mechanic that I have talked to that has worked on both Boeing and Airbus of the same vintage cringes when you say 'Airbus'.

I like Boeing!

Answer 8

I think both airplanes are very good in there own way.

The Boeing 747 has been around for a long time, and has been one of the most succsesfull airliners ever built. The newer models will have newer engines that will be more fue efficent. The size of the aircraft is enormus but still has a very good landing performance for the aircraft size and weight being able to land in short runways. It can carry more than 500 passengers in a one class configuration, fly over 8,000 nautical miles without refueling at a cruisng altitude of 35,000 feet at .85 mach a very fast airplane for its size. This is a very reliable aircraft, thats why there are so many in operation for so many years, and we will continue to see this model in the air for a long time.

On the other hand...

The Airbus A380 is still a experimental aircraft that has not recieved an airworthines certificate, they hope to recieve by the end of this year (thats gona be hard). As it is one of the newest models it will be very technologicaly advanced, making it a easier model to fly and have the pilots more aware of the aircrafts systems while in flight a very computerized cockpit. The intention of these ridicuolosly big aircraft is that the bigger they are they carry more passenger for longers distances, this make the tickets to be cheaper in the price/distance rate. But the problem with such big aircraft is that a lot of airports will have to modify there instalations to be able to recieve this enorumos plane, by the moment only 30 airports worldwide have the instalations big enough to recieve this aircraft, so that is a problem.

But both aircraft are very technologiclly advanced and very reliable machines. And beautiful too.

Ernesto C.
Commercial Pilot

Mexico

Answer 9

I like Boeing 747 better than A380. It's my personal opinion but 747 looks more graceful than lumbering A380. Boeing has delivered over 1300 B747 and still getting new orders from airlines like Lufthansa ordering 20 B747-8s.

Answer 10

All 4 JR: Your sister is messing up her terms. The 747 cannot be flown manually.

My fiance has been a major carrier pilot for 21 years and a captian for 7 years on a Boeing 757....he was a co-pilot on the Boeing 747-200 and 747-400 for 8 years...your sister is misleading people there is NO manual reversion in the 747 without hydraulics, you're dead.