{"id":166323,"date":"2025-01-12T23:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T13:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-austral-abandoned-840-seat-a380\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T23:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T13:31:14","slug":"why-air-austral-abandoned-its-plans-for-840-seat-airbus-a380s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=166323","title":{"rendered":"Why Air Austral Abandoned Its Plans For 840-Seat Airbus A380s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Located in the southern Indian Ocean is the French overseas department of            <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"278809\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/reunion\/\"  >Reunion<\/a><\/span>, a small, isolated archipelago with strong links back to France. Its airline operates multiple weekly direct flights to the French mainland; however, did you know the airline once considered acquiring an all-economy aircraft to transport passengers to this island paradise? Reunion is located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar and around 110 nautical miles (200 kilometers) southwest of Mauritius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The airline announced plans for an 840-seat Airbus A380 in all economy class, which was intended for the airline&#8217;s Paris to Reunion flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"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":[12552,898,396,13240,3183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-austral","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-economy-class"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166323","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=166323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166324,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166323\/revisions\/166324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}