{"id":197913,"date":"2025-04-09T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/route-1st-airbus-a380-flight-4-years\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T18:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T08:00:15","slug":"why-this-route-had-its-1st-airbus-a380-flight-in-nearly-4-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=197913","title":{"rendered":"Why This Route Had Its 1st Airbus A380 Flight In Nearly 4 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 21, 2025,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259797\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/london-heathrow-airport\/\"  >London Heathrow Airport<\/a><\/span> received its first A380 Superjumbo from         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"88614\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/frankfurt\/\"  >Frankfurt<\/a><\/span> for the first time since the end of 2021. While both of these major European airports are top destinations and hubs for 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>, these aircraft have not flown between these cities for years. The route is a popular business route with many people regularly commuting, but this is typically not a job for the Superjumbo. It turns out that it took a pandemic and         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2041474\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/breaking-london-heathrow-airport-closed-power-outage\/\" >a power outage at Heathrow<\/a><\/span> to get the double-decker to fly the route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in years, an A380 flight has operated between Frankfurt and Heathrow due to a diversion.<\/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":[898,396,13240,872,1022,1514,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-frankfurt-airport","category-london-heathrow-airport","category-qatar-airways","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197913","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=197913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197914,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197913\/revisions\/197914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}