{"id":372313,"date":"2026-02-19T23:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airbus-ceo-a380-testbed-convenient-but-expensive\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T23:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:04:30","slug":"airbus-ceo-an-a380-testbed-is-convenient-but-expensive-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=372313","title":{"rendered":"Airbus CEO: An A380 Testbed Is Convenient But Expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <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>&#8216; 2025 annual press conference, the planemaker&#8217;s CEO, Guillaume Faury, spoke about the future plausibility of using the gigantic A380. In response to a question by Simple Flying, Faury revealed that the giant aircraft will still fly with the open rotor engine concept, but the European aerospace giant has not made a decision about its wider use as an aviation testbed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Airbus prepares to fly the open rotor engine concept on the A380, the company&#8217;s CEO weighs the pros and cons of using the jet for future test flights.<\/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":[426,898,396,7395,19641,16569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-exclusive","category-guillaume-faury","category-manufacturers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372313","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=372313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372315,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372313\/revisions\/372315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}