{"id":315022,"date":"2025-11-11T23:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/video\/tim-clark-other-airlines-rejected-the-airbus-a380-to-weaken-emirates\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T23:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:29:15","slug":"tim-clark-other-airlines-rejected-the-airbus-a380-to-weaken-emirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=315022","title":{"rendered":"Tim Clark: Other Airlines Rejected The Airbus A380 To Weaken Emirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Clark, who has served as the President of the Middle Eastern airline since 2003, claims that other carriers have used Emirates&#8217; reliance on the A380 as a weapon against it. Specifically, Clark, via a podcast, alleges that US airlines and the Star Alliance effectively sabotaged the A380 by not buying it. The goal: To force Airbus to cease production of the type and thus weaken Emirates. Quite the allegation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>                                                                                                                                    Tim Clark, who has served as the President of the Middle Eastern airline since 2003, claims that other carriers have us&#8230;<\/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":[898,396,476,919,2962,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-emirates","category-united-arab-emirates","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315022","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=315022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315023,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315022\/revisions\/315023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}