An alternative or archaic spelling of 'airbuses,' the plural of a large passenger aircraft with multiple decks.
From 'air' (aircraft travel) + 'bus' (omnibus, a vehicle for many passengers). The term mimics the word formation of motorbus and omnibus, treating aircraft like flying buses.
The Airbus company was actually named after this generic term for large multi-passenger aircraft, not the other way around—'bus' as a shortened form of 'omnibus' comes from Latin meaning 'for all/everyone,' perfectly capturing the democratic spirit of mass transportation!
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