{"id":188528,"date":"2025-03-20T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/oldest-airbus-a380-qatar-airways-fleet\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T17:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T07:00:14","slug":"what-is-the-oldest-airbus-a380-in-the-qatar-airways-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=188528","title":{"rendered":"What Is The Oldest Airbus A380 In The Qatar Airways Fleet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254996\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/qatar-airways\/\"  >Qatar Airways<\/a><\/span> operates a fleet of eight         <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> Superjumbos. While the company regrets purchasing these mighty aircraft, it plans to operate them for a while yet. In 2019, the year before the pandemic, Qatar had planned         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"17782\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/qatar-a380s-retirement\/\" >to retire them early in 2024<\/a><\/span>. Instead,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2029806\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/qatar-airways-airbus-a380-staying-longer\/\" >it changed its decision and will now operate them for longer<\/a><\/span>, although it&#8217;s unclear how much longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest Qatar A380 in storage is almost 12 years old, and the oldest currently active is 11 years old.<\/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":[898,396,13240,1970,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-oldest-aircraft","category-qatar-airways"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188528","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=188528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188529,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188528\/revisions\/188529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}