British Airways operates a fleet of 12 Airbus A380s to worldwide destinations, such as Los Angeles, Washington DC, Singapore, Johannesburg, Hong Kong and Vancouver.
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British Airways Airbus A380These are: Boston (BOS), Washington Dulles (IAD), Miami (MIA), Chicago (ORD), Dallas (DFW), Los Angeles (LAX) and San Francisco (SFO).
Global Airlines said it has acquired an Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger jet. The carrier - which intends to begin flying from London to New York and Los Angeles from next year - is the first new airline to own one of the double-decker superjumbos in eight years.
None of the US-based airlines operate the A380, although a number of airlines use A380s to fly to the United States, including Air France, Asiana, British Airways, China Southern, Emirates, Ethiad, Korean Air, Lufthansa, Qantas and Singapore Airlines. Or at least that was the list as of about a year ago.
Where no longer has it? While Emirates' A380 network is very comprehensive, all of these were served by the quadjet 2019/2020 but no longer are: Athens (last served in 2019), Barcelona (2020), Boston (2020), Copenhagen (2020), Hamburg (2020), Osaka (2020), Muscat (2020), Prague (2020), Riyadh (2020, and Vienna (2020).
Currently, the world's biggest international airline has on order 50 A350-900s, 30 787-9s and 115 Boeing 777Xs. The airline operates 119 A380s, 123 Boeing 777-300ERs and 10 Boeing 777-200LRs. The 777X aircraft will replace the A380s, while the A350s and 787s will eventually replace the 777s.
So why has Airbus decided to kill it? The main reason the company will halt production of A380 after 12 years, from 2021, is the low number of planes sold. “In the end, you have to face facts, and we could see that we were building A380s faster than people were ordering them,” Lange says.
1 EmiratesThe airline took 123 Airbus A380s from Airbus, though seven are already listed as historic by ch-aviation, with 76 listed as active. The airline has over 60,000 seats installed across its Airbus A380 fleet, and in the single year of 2018, it scheduled over 61,000 flights.