{"id":1008,"date":"2016-04-15T04:56:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T09:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2016-04-15T05:13:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T10:13:53","slug":"airbus-a380-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1008","title":{"rendered":"Airbus A380 news: Two minus two equals zero"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Airbus A380 news, the ongoing saga of the Super Jumbos woes continue, as Air Austral announced the cancellation of an order for 2\u00a0Airbus A380 aircraft. The order had been originally placed back in 2009, with the airline announcing\u00a0plans to outfit the A380 Super Jumbo aircraft\u00a0with 840 seats in an all economy class layout. If the aircraft had entered service in that configuration, it\u00a0would have set a civil aviation record for seat capacity. The news of the cancellation\u00a0follows several announced delays for\u00a0the planes delivery to\u00a0the French leisure carrier, which had led to speculation that the order would be canceled. Air Austral currently operates a fleet of 2\u00a0Boeing 737-800 aircraft, 3\u00a0777-300ER aircraft, and 2 European built\u00a0ATR 72 turboprop aircraft.\u00a0The airline is also planning to take\u00a0delivery of 2 early build\u00a0Boeing 787 aircraft that came in too heavy to be delivered to original customer All Nippon Airways. The additional weight would have prevented those aircraft from meeting their trans Pacific Ocean range requirements.<\/p>\n

Other Airbus A380 news: Emirates orders 2 more A380’s<\/h2>\n

In more\u00a0Airbus A380 news, Emirates Airline of Dubai has stepped up to\u00a0order another 2\u00a0new Airbus A380 aircraft. The planes are scheduled to be\u00a0delivered in the fourth quarter\u00a0of 2017.\u00a0These 2 additional A380 aircraft were reportedly\u00a0part of another order originally placed by Skymark Airlines of Japan. Those deliveries\u00a0were derailed by the airlines\u00a0bankruptcy filing back in 2015.\u00a0The 2 additional A380\u00a0aircraft\u00a0will\u00a0be powered by the Rolls Royce Trent 900 engines. Emirates Airline currently has a total of\u00a075 Airbus A380 aircraft in service, with 65 more currently on order. The addition of more A380’s in Emirates arsenal will surely add fuel to the battle over subsidy accusations that have been leveled by the major US airlines. These rumors have been denied by the Middle East air carriers, even though the subsidies appear to be shown openly in those airlines financial reports.<\/p>\n

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In Airbus A380 news, the ongoing saga of the Super Jumbos woes continue, as Air Austral announced the cancellation of an order for 2\u00a0Airbus A380 aircraft. The order had been originally placed back in 2009, with the airline announcing\u00a0plans to outfit the A380 Super Jumbo aircraft\u00a0with 840 seats in an all economy class layout. If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}