{"id":450538,"date":"2026-06-10T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/6-airbus-aircraft-quietly-changed-economics-air-travel\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T07:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:00:19","slug":"6-airbus-aircraft-that-quietly-changed-the-economics-of-air-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=450538","title":{"rendered":"6 Airbus Aircraft That Quietly Changed The Economics Of Air Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2047007\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-airbus-became-part-planemaking-duopoly\/\" >Airbus was founded as Airbus Industrie GIE from a group of European aerospace companies in 1970<\/a><\/span> to produce a widebody aircraft able to compete with US-built designs. Some of the European companies that were merged into it are among the oldest aerospace companies in the world. Competing with the much larger United States and its <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  >Boeing<\/a><\/span>, Lockheed, and McDonnell Douglas aerospace companies required the comparatively smaller European states to pool resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airbus is one of aviation&#8217;s success stories although most of its contributions to the economics of air travel are evolutionary than revolutionary.<\/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":[426,434,3935,429,743,898,396,495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a220","category-airbus-a300","category-airbus-a320","category-airbus-a330","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-worldwide"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450538","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=450538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450540,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450538\/revisions\/450540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}