{"id":259322,"date":"2019-02-16T06:37:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T06:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=259322"},"modified":"2019-02-16T06:44:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T06:44:33","slug":"not-enough-clients-airbus-abandons-iconic-a380-superjumbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/not-enough-clients-airbus-abandons-iconic-a380-superjumbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Not enough clients, Airbus abandons iconic A380 superjumbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European plane manufacturer Airbus said on 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 endeavours.<\/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 (about $523 million) in losses in 2018, Airbus said. The company, a European economic powerhouse, is also girding for serious disruption to its cross-continental manufacturing from a likely chaotic British exit from the EU next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European plane manufacturer Airbus said on 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 endeavours. 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 (about [&hellip;]<\/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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259322","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=259322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}