As traveler numbers rise and air traffic returns to pre-pandemic levels, the world's largest passenger plane is enjoying a resurgence.
Lufthansa was the latest carrier to announce the-- although not before 2023 -- and there are reasons to believe that more A380s will progressively soar back into the skies.
Emirates, the largest A380 operator with 123 of the aircraft, is also ramping up."Today we operate [...] more than half of our A380s," says Richard Jewsbury, divisional vice president UK at Emirates."By the end of the year, we're aiming to operate close to 90 A380s across our entire network." That means that over a dozen more A380s will join the ones currently flying.ever produced, in late 2021, went to Emirates.
That's not all. For some airlines, putting the plane back into service makes sense because the value of the aircraft has fallen so much that it's no longer possible to sell them."Some operators have realized that it's a very difficult airplane to sell, for many different reasons. If you don't have any A380s you're definitely not going to bring it into your fleet, because that's very risky and expensive," says Van Klaveren.
Compared to the gloomy predictions of two years ago, it might now be time to imagine a rosier future for the superjumbo.
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