{"id":268980,"date":"2025-08-19T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-dont-us-airlines-fly-airbus-a380\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:00:12","slug":"why-dont-any-us-airlines-fly-the-airbus-a380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=268980","title":{"rendered":"Why Don&#8217;t Any US Airlines Fly The Airbus A380?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the United States is home to the world&#8217;s three or four largest airlines (depending on the metric), it doesn&#8217;t operate the largest passenger aircraft. No US-based airline ordered 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> Superjumbo, even though Pan Am had been the first to fly the Boeing 747-100 Jumbo in 1970. <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2042770\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airline-operates-largest-widebody-fleet-world\/\" >United Airlines operates the second-largest fleet of widebody aircraft after Emirates<\/a><\/span>, and yet it didn&#8217;t order the Airbus A380. But why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The A380 wasn&#8217;t purchased by US-based airlines as they transitioned to smaller aircraft, while the A380 was always inefficient.<\/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":[898,396,476,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268980","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=268980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268981,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268980\/revisions\/268981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}