Malaysia Airlines also says goodbye to A380s
Here's adding another airline to the list of carriers that have decided to retire the iconic Jumbo Jets. [...]
Malaysia Airlines
Here's adding another airline to the list of carriers that have decided to retire the iconic Jumbo Jets. These are. Malaysia Airlines which will withdraw in the next few months all of its A380.
"We are aware of the challenges in selling this aircraft, but we are still looking for ways and means to dispose of our 380 fleet.
At present, the management is convinced that 380 does not fit the future plan."
Izham Ismail, CEO of Malaysia Airlines
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Malaysia's first A380 arrived in 2012, the last of 6 in 2013 but now the change of course.
The end of an era
The list is long: Etihad, Lufthansa, Thai Airways, Qatar Airways, Air France and now Malaysia Airlines have also decided to retire the A380s.
Companies, in fact, prefer to focus on aircraft that are more compacts e performers, such as the A350 or the Boeing 787. Recently, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the demand is collapsed and thus support the expenses of maintaining A380s had become unsustainable, also because filling the nearly 500 seats on board at this time was a mission impossible
Some hope on the horizon of seeing the A380 in the skies again, besides Emirates, comes from Qantas: when demand returns to 2019 levels, then the company will think about reactivate all A380s, it is estimated that this will happen in 2024. Also British Airways feels the same way. CEO Sean Doyle said, "The A380 is in our plans for the future rebuilding of the airline companion [...] it is not yet clear to us exactly when we will put this model back into service."
The only one who still believes in the iconic Jumbo Jet, as we said, is Emirates who has recently renewed the aircraft and unveiled its new Premium Economy, a mixture of economy class and business class.
"The A380, of which we currently have 118 planes (and five more on delivery), will be in our plans until the mid-30s.
By the end of this decade and the beginning of the next, Emirates' heavy fleet strategy will involve the use of A380s on major routes, crossing the world from east to west and north to south [...] The 777X will gradually be added to the fleet to replace the retiring A380s."
Sir Tim Clark, Chairman of Emirates
The double-decker plane, therefore, will be a distant REMINDER, we hope to be able to book soon a flight with Emirates To fully enjoy this giant of the skies for a while longer.
