{"id":408302,"date":"2026-04-18T21:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airbus-a380-900-airlines-never-ordered\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T21:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:00:18","slug":"never-made-the-airbus-a380-900-that-airlines-never-ordered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=408302","title":{"rendered":"Never Made: The Airbus A380-900 That Airlines Never Ordered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All <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 A380s<\/span><\/span> that exist today are -800 models. These are the largest commercial aircraft ever made, but they were meant to be even bigger. Airbus originally had ambitions for the A380 to be a family of aircraft, but the program struggled to proverbially get off the ground and move to the next developmental stages. Ultimately, Airbus announced it would cancel the program in 2019, with the final A380-800 being delivered in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why the A380 program failed before Airbus could move onto the primary variant, the stretched A380-900.<\/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":[426,12999,396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a380-800","category-aircraft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408302","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=408302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408305,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408302\/revisions\/408305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}