Singapore continues to focus on the A380, and this is good news
Over the past year we have definitely written more obituaries than happy announcements about the A380, the last one just a couple of days ago [...]
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In the past year we have definitely written more obituaries than happy announcements about the A380, the latest just a couple of days ago with the news of the decision to Thai to decommission its A380 fleet e 747.
While production by Airbus is set to run out soon with deliveries of the latest 3 giants at Emirates, before the final decommissioning of the A380 program, the fate of the (few) remaining aircraft on the ground is increasingly in doubt.
Certainly Emirates will continue to focus on this aircraft, partly because more than half of its fleet consists of A380s. Other companies such as Qantas, British, and Lufthansa have parked their examples at the warmth of some desert waiting for better times. Then there is ANA, which with its three colorful liveries and very few flights on its back will surely continue to connect Japan with Hawaii as soon as the pandemic reopens for nonessential travel.
There are also those who have decided to say goodbye forever to their planes at two stories like Air France And probably Etihad.
Then there is the situation of Singapore Airlines, which was the first carrier to carry, just over 10 years ago, passengers on this model. The company has already announced the halving of its fleet, effectively retiring the older A380s. Uncertain is the future of the remaining models, some of which are configured with the brand new first class suites, true apartments with the new business class cabin offering passengers the option of a double bed in the "honey moon" configuration.
In the past few days, the city-state airline took off from the "parking lot" in the heat of Australia one of the 12 A380s left in service, the plane with the initials 9V-SKQ is not yet 10 years old and, according to leaks, is about to be modernized in the interior.
Good news that suggests that the company has no plans in the near future to abandon the remaining part of the fleet. Passengers, then, may still have a chance to sit in one of the brand new seats on this giant of the skies, perhaps on a leg of a free business tour of the world.
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