The Airbus A380 was never the huge success it could, or should, have been. While everyone agrees it’s a superb aircraft, its release coincided with a number of external factors that meant it never achieved its full potential. Here’s a look at how things could have been different for the Airbus superjumbo if it had been created around the same time as the Boeing 747.
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Bahrain’s underwater theme park opens to diving enthusiasts
Dive Bahrain, the world’s largest underwater theme park spanning an area of 100,000 sq m, features a sunken Boeing 747
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Gallery: Underwater theme park with submerged Boeing 747 opens in Bahrain
Bahrain officially launches the world’s largest eco-friendly underwater Dive Bahrain theme park, with a submerged Boeing 747 jet for divers to explore.
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Bahrain seeks investors for water park attraction
Bahrain water park plans have been unveiled by officials and will be put out to public tender
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Gallery: Bahrain’s new underwater attraction
The 70m-long decommissioned Boeing 747 aircraft will become the centrepiece for Dive Bahrain, which will be the kingdom’s new underwater theme park set to open in August.
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Aircraft ‘arrives’ at Dive Bahrain
70-metre long 747 to be star attraction at world’s largest underwater theme park
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Bahrain’s submerged Boeing 747 was bought from the UAE for $100,000
The Boeing aircraft will become the centrepiece for Dive Bahrain, Bahrain’s underground theme park
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Bahrain to sink Boeing 747 ahead of underwater theme park opening in August
The submerged Boeing 747 will be the centrepiece for the underwater theme park
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Bahrain’s underwater theme park to open after Eid
The attraction will include a submerged Boeing 747 as its centrepiece
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UAE denies reports of 747 touching down on Fujairah Corniche
The Boeing 747 was in Fujairah with the government’s knowledge before it is shipped to Bahrain
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Bahrain to open world’s largest underwater theme park
A submerged Boeing 747 will be the centrepiece of the 100,000 square-metre project