{"id":388048,"date":"2026-03-17T04:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/6-a380-airlines-pulled-out-of-melbourne\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T04:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:36:14","slug":"6-airbus-a380-airlines-have-pulled-out-of-melbourne-is-the-superjumbo-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=388048","title":{"rendered":"6 Airbus A380 Airlines Have Pulled Out Of Melbourne \u2014 Is The Superjumbo Dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3525540\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Airbus A380<\/span><\/span> is the largest passenger aircraft in the sky. Before the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259798\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>COVID-19 Pandemic<\/span><\/span>, many of the world&#8217;s largest airlines operated this type. In recent years, the aircraft&#8217;s popularity has declined, as more airlines look for smaller, more fuel-efficient options. <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"273968\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/melbourne-airport\/\"  >Melbourne Airport<\/a><\/span>(MEL) in Australia is a fair representation of this, with the Victorian airport losing six of its previous A380 operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Airbus A380 once dominated Melbourne Airport, but now only two airlines remain, raising questions about the future of the superjumbo.<\/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":[426,898,396,476,273,513,15477],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-australia","category-melbourne-airport","category-sf-routes-analysis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388048","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=388048"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388315,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388048\/revisions\/388315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}