{"id":456638,"date":"2021-12-17T08:52:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T03:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=456638"},"modified":"2021-12-17T09:39:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T04:09:28","slug":"end-of-an-era-airbus-delivers-last-a380-superjumbo-to-dubais-emirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/end-of-an-era-airbus-delivers-last-a380-superjumbo-to-dubais-emirates\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an era: Airbus delivers last A380 superjumbo to Dubai&#8217;s Emirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS\/HAMBURG (Reuters) -Airbus delivered the final A380 superjumbo on Thursday, to Dubai&#8217;s Emirates, marking the end of a 14-year run that gave Europe an instantly recognised symbol across the globe but failed to fulfil the commercial vision of its designers. <\/p>\n<p>Production of the world&#8217;s largest airliner &#8211; capable of seating 500 people on two decks together with perks such as showers in first class &#8211; has ended with just over 250 delivered to airlines compared with the 1,000 or more once predicted.<\/p>\n<p>Airbus, a planemaking conglomerate drawn together from separate entities in Britain, France, Germany and Spain to carry out their brainchild of mega-jets to beat congestion, pulled the plug in 2019 after airlines went for smaller, leaner models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS\/HAMBURG (Reuters) -Airbus delivered the final A380 superjumbo on Thursday, to Dubai&#8217;s Emirates, marking the end of a 14-year run that gave Europe an instantly recognised symbol across the globe but failed to fulfil the commercial vision of its designers. Production of the world&#8217;s largest airliner &#8211; capable of seating 500 people on two decks together with perks such as showers in first class &#8211; has ended with just over 250 delivered to airlines compared with the 1,000 or more once predicted. Airbus, a planemaking conglomerate drawn together from separate entities in Britain, France, Germany and Spain to carry out [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456638","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=456638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}