£400m GIANT OF SKIES

The £400m Airbus A380 typically carries 525 passengers sat on two decks

It can carry 70,390 gallons of fuel, the same as six tanker trucks

It weighs 589 tons – as much as 18 Sherman tanks

Each plane has more than 310 miles of wiring

The aircraft is twice as long as a blue whale with a length of 240 feet

First-class customers get their own cabin on Singapore Airlines A380s