{"id":379159,"date":"2026-03-03T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-british-airways-order-airbus-a380\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T03:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:00:17","slug":"why-did-british-airways-order-the-airbus-a380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=379159","title":{"rendered":"Why Did British Airways Order The Airbus A380?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In September 2007, UK flag carrier <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"77388\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/british-airways\/\"  >British Airways<\/a><\/span> made a rare split decision as it determined the future of its long-haul fleet. The carrier decided to back Boeing&#8217;s Boeing 787 family for flexibility while making a noteworthy commitment to the larger Airbus A380. The company placed an order for 12 Airbus A380 models alongside 24 Boeing 787 Dreamliner models, a renewal designed to replace older 747-400s and 767s while letting British Airways keep growing from its Heathrow home base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft was an exception fit for the airline&#8217;s network.<\/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":[396,476,1513,1003,701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-british-airways","category-legacy-carriers","category-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379159","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=379159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379160,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379159\/revisions\/379160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}