Just one in every 26 long-haul passenger flights to the US will be on an Airbus A380 or Boeing 747 this year, down from one in 10 before the pandemic in 2019. The findings are based on analyzing every service using Cirium Diio data. Of course, technological developments, the popularity of much more efficient twinjets, and the pandemic mean these things are unsurprising.
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