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cwerdna

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As I posted in another forum:
I hadn't realized that Air France pulled the plug on it recently:
Air France Operates Final A380 Flight - Airport Spotting
https://www.airportspotting.com/air-france-operates-final-a380-flight/

I have a relative who works for Air France and posted about it on Facebook. It looks like she got to go on the final flight (CDG to CDG).

Will doing some digging, I found https://thepointsguy.com/news/will-the-a380-fly-again/ and hadn’t realized that Emirates had that many of them. Before this, I’d heard about Qantas grounding all of their A380's for several years due to COVID-19 drop in travel demand.

Also, apparently, some A380's have already been scrapped. If Wikipedia is the first commercial one was delivered in Oct 2007.

What a shame.
 
that is what happens when you build an airplane for ego vs. common sense.

4 engine aircraft can't compete....all long range passenger aircraft will be 2 engine...787, 777 and A350 etc.
 
Thanks for that. I'd read that Airbus had canceled production a year or so ago and I wondered what was up. This was pre-Covid I believe.

We flew it once and we liked it. We were in cattle class but it was still nice.

Paul
 
South Korea’s Asiana Airlines flies empty A380 superjumbo, just to keep pilots certified
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3094370/south-koreas-asiana-airlines-flies-empty-a380-superjumbo
 
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