{"id":214506,"date":"2025-05-10T21:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T11:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airbus-a380-success-20-years\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T21:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T11:01:16","slug":"20-years-on-was-the-airbus-a380-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=214506","title":{"rendered":"20 Years On: Was The Airbus A380 A Success?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has now been over 20 years since the Airbus A380 completed its maiden flight and almost 18 years since the double-decker entered passenger service with launch customer         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"122960\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/singapore-airlines\/\"  >Singapore Airlines<\/a><\/span>. Since then, the A380 has carried over 300 million passengers around the planet on more than 800,000 flights, becoming an icon of the skies and many people&#8217;s favorite aircraft of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite incurring huge financial losses, the A380 can&#8217;t be considered a total failure.<\/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":[426,898,396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214506","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=214506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214507,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214506\/revisions\/214507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}