Malaysian Airlines says goodbye to A380, six (lightly used) examples for sale

The pandemic turned the world of travel and air travel upside down. When the economics and history textbooks in 10 years tell of the consequences of Covid on the industry, surely the cover image will be an A380.

The giant of the skies was already set to be grounded by the few carriers who had decided to bet on the Airbus-produced plane, the Covid actually accelerated the process and those who immediately, as Air France and British Airways, who over the months, such as Etihad and Qatar, announced the grounding of the entire fleet.

Today he adds to the list Malaysian Airlines and, we must say, it is an announcement that is not surprising. Among the companies that have this model in their fleet and had not yet announced the future of the A380, the Asian carrier in economic crisis even before the pandemic was the one that would almost certainly scrap the six planes in service since 2012.

Truth be told, the company has flown its six very little because of the crisis that resulted from the two incidents that heavily undermined the carrier's image, the plane that disappeared into thin air during flight MH370 and the MH7 connection that was shot down by a missile.

As with British Airways' planes, the future is scrapping since there is, for this model, no demand in the second-hand world, although at the moment the company still tries to sell them, whole or for parts.

Right now there are 3 companies that fly their A380s: Emirates, which in fact owns two-thirds of the specimens produced (the last ones received in recent months), Korean and China Eastern.

Qantas and Lufthansa have announced that they will return to fly their A380s sooner or later, while everyone else has permanently retired the (all too brief) double-decker era.

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