Boeing New Large Airplane

Boeing sought to combat this and began working up designs for the NLA in the early 1990s, with a projected service entry date of before 2000 in order to beat the Airbus A380.

The goal of the NLA project was to create an airplane capable of traveling primarily long-haul routes and carrying vast amounts of passengers or cargo.

With the goal of beating its competitors based on sheer passenger volume, the NLA design was to have included a full-length two deck configuration.

[citation needed] However, after only a few years of working on the project, Boeing decided that the NLA model was unsustainable with the way the commercial aviation market was trending.

Instead of larger, higher capacity aircraft with the ability to make long hub-to-hub routes in a single go, Boeing decided the future was in smaller, more direct flights.

The Airbus A380 is larger than any Boeing commercial airliner, including the then-flagship Boeing 747-400
The Boeing 747-8 would later become the ultimate evolution of the 747 family amid decreasing interest in the jumbojet sector.
Medium-sized twinjets like the Boeing 787 Dreamliner are later preferred by Boeing and the whole market.