{"id":540,"date":"2016-02-16T01:27:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T07:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=540"},"modified":"2016-02-18T12:21:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T18:21:16","slug":"malaysia-airlines-delaying-airbus-a380-liquidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Airlines delaying Airbus A380 liquidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia Airlines has announced that it will delay its plan to sell off\u00a0its Airbus A380 super jumbo jets. The airline has stated that\u00a0it\u00a0will now keep the 6 A380&#8217;s in its fleet\u00a0until\u00a0at least 2018. This follows the air\u00a0carriers\u00a0retirement its Boeing 777 fleet. The airline has been\u00a0unable to sell the giant Airbus airplanes over\u00a0the last year, as it moves to cut costs and\u00a0restructure. Malaysia Airlines has been trying to climb its way out of a giant hole\u00a0after the disappearance of flight 370\u00a0and the\u00a0shooting down of flight 17 over the\u00a0Ukraine in 2014.\u00a0The goal is to\u00a0return to profitability by 2018, the airline has stated. It&#8217;s facing some trouble with that plan, due to\u00a0both a softening\u00a0China market, and the depreciation of the local\u00a0currency\u00a0against the US dollar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-541\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Malaysia-Airlines-A380-300x133.jpg\" alt=\"Malaysia-Airlines-A380\" width=\"631\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Malaysia-Airlines-A380-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Malaysia-Airlines-A380.jpg 688w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia Airlines has announced that it will delay its plan to sell off\u00a0its Airbus A380 super jumbo jets. The airline has stated that\u00a0it\u00a0will now keep the 6 A380&#8217;s in its fleet\u00a0until\u00a0at least 2018. This follows the air\u00a0carriers\u00a0retirement its Boeing 777 fleet. The airline has been\u00a0unable to sell the giant Airbus airplanes over\u00a0the last year, as [&hellip;]<\/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":[75,47,67,74],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","tag-a380","tag-airbus","tag-aviation-news","tag-malaysia-airlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","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=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}