{"id":234107,"date":"2019-02-14T06:03:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T06:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=234107"},"modified":"2019-02-14T06:05:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T06:05:59","slug":"a380-grounded-airbus-to-scrap-worlds-largest-aircraft-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/a380-grounded-airbus-to-scrap-worlds-largest-aircraft-production\/","title":{"rendered":"A380 grounded: Airbus to scrap world\u2019s largest aircraft production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s Airbus announced plans to scrap production of the A380 superjumbo on Thursday, abandoning its dream of dominating the skies with a cruiseliner for the 21st century after years of lacklustre sales. The world\u2019s largest airliner, with two decks of spacious cabins and room for 544 people in standard layout, was designed to challenge Boeing\u2019s legendary 747 but failed to take hold as airlines backed a new generation of smaller, more nimble jets. Airbus said in a statement that the last A380 would be delivered in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming a shake-up first reported by Reuters, it said Emirates \u2013 the largest A380 customer \u2013 had decided to reduce its orders for the iconic superjumbo and order a total of 70 of the smaller A350 and A330neo models. The European company said it would enter talks with unions in coming weeks over the 3,000-3,500 jobs potentially affected. Airbus will produce 17 more of the planes including 14 for Emirates and 3 for Japanese airline ANA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s Airbus announced plans to scrap production of the A380 superjumbo on Thursday, abandoning its dream of dominating the skies with a cruiseliner for the 21st century after years of lacklustre sales. The world\u2019s largest airliner, with two decks of spacious cabins and room for 544 people in standard layout, was designed to challenge Boeing\u2019s legendary 747 but failed to take hold as airlines backed a new generation of smaller, more nimble jets. Airbus said in a statement that the last A380 would be delivered in 2021. Confirming a shake-up first reported by Reuters, it said Emirates \u2013 the largest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}