{"id":413479,"date":"2026-04-25T23:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/inside-oldest-airbus-a380\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T23:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:00:18","slug":"over-20-years-old-inside-the-worlds-oldest-airbus-a380-still-flying-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=413479","title":{"rendered":"Over 20 Years Old: Inside The World&#8217;s Oldest Airbus A380 Still Flying Passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe, but the world&#8217;s oldest active <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 now more than 20 years old. The superjumbo in question, registered A6-EDF, flies alongside more than 100 of its counterparts for the Dubai-based UAE flag carrier<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"86730\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/emirates\/\"  >Emirates<\/a><\/span>. According to fleet data made available by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ch-aviation.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >ch-aviation<\/a>, this particular superjumbo is 20.2 years old, having first flown back on February 19, 2006, although it didn&#8217;t go to Emirates immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jet in question was just the seventh superjumbo off the production line.<\/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":[426,898,396,1157,919,15477],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-dubai-international-airport","category-emirates","category-sf-routes-analysis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413479","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=413479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413480,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413479\/revisions\/413480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}