New YYC terminal was designed with A380 in mind and opened as such - 2 gates are built for it, 74 and 78. One bridge goes to the lower deck and one goes to the upper deck. In an Operation Yellow Ribbon (9/11) type of scenario you could stick one on gate 76 as well and just restrict the wingspan of whatever's on gate 73. You'd have no upper deck bridge in that scenario.
An A380 would be unrestricted in its travels from either gate 74 or 78 to the new runway on the east side. There are some restrictions on the west side of the field but other jets are already subject to those.
British Airways purchased an A380 towbar for Calgary, and a ground handling company here has a tractor capable of pushing one - they use it for Cargolux and Korean Air.
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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
the A380 can only fly into YYZ, YUL and YVR... can YYC handle it?
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YEG can also handle the A380 at one gate (coincidentally, gate 80) but there would be no upper deck bridge. YEG has had, if I remember correctly, a total of 6 A380 diversions while Calgary has never seen one. A380 flight paths tend to positionally favour YEG, and the diversions have not required a full deplaning of the aircraft. If everybody has to get off that's when we'll see one, assuming the plane can get here... because we have upper deck bridges and YEG doesn't. None of YEG's A380 diversions have parked at the terminal.