{"id":260973,"date":"2025-08-03T06:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T20:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-only-11-airlines-fly-airbus-a380\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T06:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T20:30:17","slug":"why-do-only-11-airlines-fly-the-airbus-a380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=260973","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Only 11 Airlines Fly The Airbus A380?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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> is one of the world&#8217;s most well-known aircraft. The A380 is the world&#8217;s largest passenger airliner and is also the only full-length double-deck jet airliner, since the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"59013\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 747<\/span><\/span> features only a partial double-deck. Originally, Airbus first began researching the program in the late 1980s, specifically to rival the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  >Boeing<\/a><\/span> aircraft. However, the project was not officially launched by Airbus until late 2000, with the project totaling nearly $11 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 250 total Airbus A380s have been delivered.<\/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":[426,898,396,919,1005],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-emirates","category-singapore-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260973","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=260973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260975,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260973\/revisions\/260975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}