Well, Airbus has made the least surprising decision in the aerospace industry….the A380 program is dead. In 2021, the last airframe will roll out of Toulouse and, unless something dramatic happens in terms of 747 demand, the era of jumbo jets will end. So what happened? It’s not as if the hardware was an issue. The A380 is the most impressive achievement in commercial aerospace since Concorde and in terms of seat mile costs, a universal metric for comparing airliner operating costs,…
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