{"id":457096,"date":"2021-12-18T10:57:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T05:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=457096"},"modified":"2021-12-18T12:23:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T06:53:33","slug":"end-of-an-era-airbus-delivers-last-a380-superjumbo-to-emirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/end-of-an-era-airbus-delivers-last-a380-superjumbo-to-emirates\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an era: Airbus delivers last A380 superjumbo to Emirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airbus is set to deliver the final A380 superjumbo to Dubai&#8217;s Emirates on Thursday, 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 like showers in first class &#8211; has ended after 272 were built 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>Airbus is set to deliver the final A380 superjumbo to Dubai&#8217;s Emirates on Thursday, 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 like showers in first class &#8211; has ended after 272 were built 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 their brainchild of [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457096","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=457096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}