Last A380 convoy in French village spells end of an aviation era
Airbus prepares to build last A380 superjumbo
The last convoy of outsize parts for the world’s largest airliner crawled towards an assembly plant in southwest France, applauded by residents and production workers as Europe’s Airbus prepares to build the last A380 superjumbo.
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Trucks carrying three fuselage sections squeezed through the rural village of Levignac on their way to Toulouse, where the final superjumbo will be assembled before the model ends production in 2021, just 14 years after entering service. Faced with weak sales of the four-engined behemoth, beaten on efficiency by smaller jets like the Airbus A350 and Boeing 787, Airbus announced the early halt last year.
