{"id":234289,"date":"2019-02-14T07:13:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T07:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=234289"},"modified":"2019-02-14T07:13:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T07:13:26","slug":"airbus-to-stop-making-struggling-a380-superjumbo-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airbus-to-stop-making-struggling-a380-superjumbo-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus to stop making struggling A380 superjumbo in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOULOUSE: European aviation giant Airbus said Thursday it will stop making its superjumbo A380 in 2021 for lack of customers, abandoning the world&#8217;s biggest passenger jet and one of the aviation industry&#8217;s most ambitious and most troubled endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>Barely a decade after the 500-plus-seat plane started carrying passengers, Airbus said in a statement that key client Emirates is cutting back its orders for the plane, and as a result, &#8220;we have no substantial A380 backlog and hence no basis to sustain production.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The decision could hurt up to 3,500 jobs and already cost the plane maker 463 million euros in losses in 2018, Airbus said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOULOUSE: European aviation giant Airbus said Thursday it will stop making its superjumbo A380 in 2021 for lack of customers, abandoning the world&#8217;s biggest passenger jet and one of the aviation industry&#8217;s most ambitious and most troubled endeavors. Barely a decade after the 500-plus-seat plane started carrying passengers, Airbus said in a statement that key client Emirates is cutting back its orders for the plane, and as a result, &#8220;we have no substantial A380 backlog and hence no basis to sustain production.&#8221; The decision could hurt up to 3,500 jobs and already cost the plane maker 463 million euros in [&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":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234289","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=234289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}