Is Qantas getting rid of A380?

Qantas will phase out the mighty Airbus A380 from 2032, with the Airbus A350 taking its place on key long-range international routes to London and the USA. The airline this morning confirmed the superjumbo sunset, saying it would “ultimately replace its 10 A380s with A350s from around FY32 onwards.”



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Qantas is upgrading its A380s with new business class seats and lounges. “But as part of the pipeline we're building, I can announce they will be replaced by the Airbus A350 from about FY32 onwards.”

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Like Air France, Lufthansa has been one of the few airlines to confirm that the Airbus A380 will not be returning to service. The airline used the A380 for repatriation flights and kept a contingent stored at Frankfurt Airport for around a year, though the last jet left for good in September 2021.

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The remaining nine aircraft were due to be phased out slowly, but when the pandemic hit, the airline took the plunge and retired the remaining nine almost immediately. Eight of the aircraft were placed into storage where, according to planespotters.net, they remain to this day.

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The arrival of the A380 in 2007 was poorly timed. The price of jet fuel had begun to creep up, and by 2007 was floating at around $4 a gallon. This made airlines shy away from the expensive to operate four engine jets of the 80s and 90s, and to look instead to fuel efficiency as a major deciding factor.

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Sir Tim Clark, President Emirates Airline said: “The A380 is a truly special aircraft in so many ways. For Emirates, it gave us the opportunity to redefine the travel experience, efficiently serve demand at slot-constrained airports, and bolster our network growth.

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1 Emirates The 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.

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Lufthansa has been flying the A380 aircraft to Delhi since 2014, but it was withdrawn in 2019 from various routes. Following a strong surge in demand, the airline decided to bring it back from the summer of 2023 and aims to reactivate a total of eight of its A380s by 2025.

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After being grounded for over three years, Lufthansa brought back some of its Airbus A380s as of the summer of 2023. The airline is planning on progressively bringing back more of these planes, and will eventually have all eight remaining A380s back in service.

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The four-engine A380 is only profitable with a high load factor, and only the world's largest airports have facilities to handle the aircraft. Such reasons led Lufthansa CEO to declare the craft “permanently decommissioned.” Just over 250 giant A380 aircraft were built before production ended in 2021.

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1 Emirates The 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.

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The world's largest passenger plane has been mired by controversy since it took flight in 2007. Despite the ability to carry up to 500-800 paying passengers onboard, the plane was simply too expensive, too fuel hungry and too big to be practical in today's world.

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Airbus A380s In The United States: There Are Now 2 Giants On The N Register. Both A380s will unlikely ever fly with their N registration. No American airlines ever went through with an order for the Airbus A380.

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AIRBUS 380 MoS
  • ANC - Anchorage International Airport.
  • ATL - Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport.
  • BOS - Boston Logan International Airport.
  • DEN - Denver International Airport.
  • DFW - Dallas/Ft. ...
  • HNL - Honolulu International Airport.
  • IAD - Washington Dulles International Airport.
  • IAH - Houston Intercontinental Airport, Texas.


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Currently, the bragging rights for the longest flight in the world belong to Singapore Airlines' New York City to Singapore route. Its longest flight path, which connects Singapore's Changi Airport with New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, 9,585 miles away, takes 18 hours and 40 minutes.

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