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Air France was the first airline to completely remove all A380s from its fleet, followed closely by Thai Airways and China Southern Airlines. This particular aircraft was involved in the Air France Flight 066 accident in 2017. Thai Airways was the shortest operator of the A380, only operating the type for 8-9 years.
Airlines that expressed an interest in the A380-900 included Emirates, [285] Virgin Atlantic, [286] Cathay Pacific, [287] Air France, KLM, Lufthansa, [288] Kingfisher Airlines, [289] and leasing company ILFC. [290] In May 2010, Airbus announced that A380-900 development would be postponed until production of the A380-800 stabilised. [291]
Lufthansa operates a mainline fleet of 296 aircraft, consisting of Airbus narrow and wide-body and Boeing wide-body aircraft. [1] [2] The mainline fleet is composed of seven different aircraft families: the Airbus A320 and A320neo families, Airbus A330, Airbus A340, Airbus A350, Airbus A380, Boeing 747 and Boeing 787.
The airline said it will un-retire some or all of its eight A380s by 2023 because of rising customer demand and delayed delivery of new planes. Lufthansa is bringing its Airbus A380 super-jumbos ...
Emirates is by far the largest operator of the double-decker plane, with a fleet of 118. Singapore Airlines is next with just 13. Airbus ended production of the A380 in 2021 — 18 years after it ...
The Airbus A380 superjumbo was supposed to be a game-changing icon, but its inefficient four engines proved to be one of its biggest downfalls. The world's largest passenger jet took flight for ...