Qatar Airways came hair-raisingly close to eliminating the Airbus A380 from its fleet during the heat of COVID. Having parked all 10 during the global downturn in air travel, the airline hadnt planned to bring any of them back to service. Then-CEO Akbar Al Baker famously told me that buying the superjumbo was the airlines biggest mistake.
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Most aviation enthusiasts LOVE the A380. Passengers, who aren’t avgeeks, seem to love the type as well – due to its relatively quiet cabin and feeling of spaciousness. While Abu Dhabi-based Etihad has decided to bring more of its A380s out of storage, the type is, overall, on the decline. On July 28th, Angus Whitley and Danny Lee, writing for Bloomberg, published an article discussing how the type, the world’s largest passenger plane, sadly keeps breaking down.