{"id":136448,"date":"2024-10-04T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T21:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airbus-a380-white-elephant-or-perfect-fit-analysis\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T07:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T21:00:13","slug":"is-the-airbus-a380-a-white-elephant-or-the-perfect-fit-for-its-specific-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=136448","title":{"rendered":"Is The Airbus A380 A White Elephant Or The Perfect Fit For Its Specific Market?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story of the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"70735\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Airbus A380<\/span><\/span> in many ways is a story of             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"86730\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/emirates\/\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/emirates-logo.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>Emirates<\/a><\/span>. Emirates invested heavily in the A380, purchasing over half of the superjumbos produced, and continues to operate around half of the world&#8217;s A380s.         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2027648\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airbus-a380-operators-ranking\/\" >Emirates is expected to operate some 57,531 flights with its A380s in 2024<\/a><\/span> (10x more than the next airline). While the A380 turned out something of a white elephant, was it actually a success for Emirates?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Emirates, the A380 is more than a white elephant, with the airline planning to fly it well into the 2030s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[898,12999,396,13240,919],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airbus-a380","category-airbus-a380-800","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-emirates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136449,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136448\/revisions\/136449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}