{"id":307978,"date":"2025-10-27T22:58:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tim-clark-airlines-sabotaged-airbus-a380-weaken-emirates\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T22:58:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:58:42","slug":"emirates-ceo-rival-carriers-sabotaged-the-airbus-a380-to-undermine-the-airline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=307978","title":{"rendered":"Emirates CEO: Rival Carriers Sabotaged The Airbus A380 To Undermine The Airline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite its early promise, the Airbus A380 has largely ended up being considered to have been something of a white elephant in the aviation industry. While the type rarely sees widespread usage at major airlines these days, the exception to this rule is<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"86730\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/emirates\/\"  >Emirates<\/a><\/span>. Indeed, the Dubai-based UAE flag carrier has almost 120 examples of the quadjet at its disposal, which it uses on routes to airports all around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Clark alleged that US airlines and Star Alliance members intentionally avoided ordering the A380 to weaken Emirates, which relies on the jet.<\/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":[426,898,396,919,1695,3396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-emirates","category-middle-east","category-tim-clark"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307978","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=307978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307980,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307978\/revisions\/307980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}