After all the goodbyes, here's where the Airbus 380 flies today
The list of companies that the giant of the skies operated was already short before the pandemic, and many had already [...]
Korean Air
Emirates
China Southern Airlines
LHR
The list of companies operating the giant of the skies was already short before the pandemic, and many had already decided the date when the A380, the world's largest passenger plane, would stop flying. To understand how in its short history the A380 has entered the collective imagination of travelers, one only has to consider that it is the only plane in the world to which the a website which explains which companies use it and on which routes.
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Then Covid-19 came along and a tsunami hit the airlines, virtually all but the major lowcost airlines were bailed out with billion-euro injections from their respective governments. Because of this, many companies decided to shipping to deserts around the world a lot of planes and unfortunately a lot of "double deckers" of the skies ended up there.
Many of the companies that decided instead to keep it in the fleet--to have it, sooner or later, take off again--have put it into hibernation pending the resumption of traffic.
Here are the companies currently flying the A380
We can only start with Emirates, the company that alone bought half of the jumbos produced by Airbus has resumed operating flights with its most iconic double-decker jet, The one that is equipped with the shower for first class customers Or the bar to socialize in.
At present, Dubai, Emirates' mega-hub, is connected by A380s with flights from Cairo, Paris, London Heathrow, Guangzhou, and Moscow, and as of November 4, Amman, the capital of Jordan, will be added.
If before the pandemic it was London Heathrow the airport where this plane was at home, now it is in China the airport, far from Dubai, where one of these giants is most likely to see one of these planes land. In addition to Emirates, China Southern and Korean Air also fly into the city of Guagzhou.
The Chinese airline has five A380s in its fleet, and they currently fly only on the route between its hub and South Korea's capital, Seoul.
The same route and with the same aircraft is also covered by Korean Air, which has 1o of A380s and has decided to reactivate on one of the most popular routes the use of the jumbo.
All the other airlines decided at the time to leave their A380s parked, even Singapore Airlines transformed one of its planes most iconic, the one where he offers a real first-class double apartment in a restaurant.
