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Schedule data from <a href=\"http:\/\/cirium.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Cirium<\/a> for November 2025 through February 2026, analyzed by Simple Flying route analysts, helps demonstrate how heavily a handful of trunk routes still rely on the double-decker aircraft, with Emirates and Qatar Airways using the type to concentrate huge volumes of capacity into their main hubs. Measured by the number of flights, these seven city pairs alone account for thousands of Airbus A380 movements and many billions of available seat miles over four months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The superjumbo has a busy winter coming up.<\/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":[898,396,2041,495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-long-haul","category-worldwide"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The superjumbo has a busy winter coming up.\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Guest authors\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"google-site-verification\" content=\"1EIWGZ5FoylKQrO3pqls-2hXlDXKIP1lffdWZCVV0V4\" \/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=326171\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO Pro (AIOSEO) 4.9.10\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"VibeWire Magazine - 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