The last Airbus A380 to be built has carried out a test flight ahead of its painting and delivery to Emirates Airlines. Airbus posted a video of the flight saying: “A first flight is always special. The one in this video is even more so as it was the first [read more]
Charter Airline Hi Fly Malta, a subsidiary of Hi Fly, will not renew its lease of Airbus A380 MSN006 (Currently 9H-MIP) when it expires later this year. Hi Fly leased the ex Singapore Airlines Super Jumbo from Doric Aviation after the asian carrier end its lease after 10 years. The [read more]
The transfer of Airbus A380 MSN 272 from Station 40 to Station 35 yesterday marked the completion of the last ever Airbus A380 to be built. Airbus announced in 2019 that it was ending production of the Superjumbo after sales of the type slumped and airlines cancelling orders in favour [read more]
In what appears to be a growing list of ‘aircraft we’re unlikely to see in the sky after Coronavirus’ the A380 is seemingly cementing its place as Air France (AF/AFR) becomes the latest airline to retire its fleet of Super Jumbos. In a statement to investors, Air France-KLM said: “In [read more]
Air France (AF/FRA) has retired its first Airbus A380 Super-Jumbo and it has been flown to Knock, Ireland to be broken up. The Airbus A380 touched down for the final time at the West Ireland airport yesterday and is the biggest aircraft ever seen at the airport. The official twitter [read more]
Airbus has formally announced it cease production of the Airbus A380 superjumbo after the biggest operator slashed its order for the aircraft. As reported yesterday, Emirates (EK/UAE) was in talks with Airbus to convert most of its remaining A380 orders into orders for twin-jet aircraft. The airline has cut its [read more]
Airbus is expected to officially cancel the Airbus A380 project as early as tomorrow after a run of cancellations for the superjumbo. Qantas recently cancelled an order for 8 aircraft and sources have indicated that Emirates, the largest user of the A380, is to convert the order for 36 aircraft [read more]
European airframer Airbus has delivered more aircraft in 2018 than ever before despite problems with engines causing delays to deliveries on its A320neo family. The Toulouse based company delivered 800 aircraft to 93 different customers in 2018, an 11% increase on the previous year. Despite delays in deliveries of engines [read more]
An Ex-Singapore Airlines A380 will get a new lease of life with the Portuguese Charter specialist, Hi Fly (5k/HFY). The Super-Jumbo was returned to aircraft lessors Dr Peters Group in November 2017 and the company had struggled to find a 2nd user market for the type. Interested parties were rumoured to include [read more]
Airbus and London Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL) have celebrated 10 years of the Airbus A380 at the Airport. The very first Airbus A380 flight, operated by Singapore Airlines, touched down at the airport on the March 2008. SQ308 flew to Heathrow from Singapore’s Changi Airport. Heathrow now sees around 50 Airbus A380 flights [read more]
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