{"id":369808,"date":"2026-02-16T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/los-angeles-airbus-a380-analysis\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:00:17","slug":"the-a380-capital-of-the-us-why-lax-has-more-superjumbos-than-any-other-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=369808","title":{"rendered":"The A380 Capital Of The US: Why LAX Has More Superjumbos Than Any Other Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58499\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airbus\/\"  >Airbus<\/a><\/span> A380 operations in the United States of America, Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in Southern California is the nation&#8217;s top hub. According to current scheduling data made available by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cirium.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Cirium<\/a>, an aviation analytics company, just 10 US airports will handle the A380 this year, serving a combined grand total of 7,638 departures. Of these, LAX accounts for 2,022 flights, representing a proportion of 26.5%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six different airlines fly the double decker to Los Angeles.<\/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":[898,396,1533,552,15477,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-los-angeles","category-los-angeles-international-airport","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369808","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=369808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369809,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369808\/revisions\/369809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}