{"id":247175,"date":"2019-02-15T07:18:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T07:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=247175"},"modified":"2019-02-15T07:20:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T07:20:40","slug":"airbus-to-scrap-production-of-a380-superjumbo-last-plane-to-be-delivered-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airbus-to-scrap-production-of-a380-superjumbo-last-plane-to-be-delivered-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus to scrap production of A380 superjumbo, last plane to be delivered in 2021"},"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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Airbus said in a statement that the last A380 would be delivered in 2021.<\/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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247175","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}