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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by lisper on Thursday February 14, 2019 @02:02AM (#19160166)
> Can these fly with two engines?

In an emergency, yes. But they can't take off with two engines. And if they are cruising with only two engines they go a lot slower.

> Could one be setup to only do LAX<-->SFO on constant rotation?

Yes, but it would be foolish. The plane was designed for long-haul flights, and it would be ridiculously un-economical on a short route.

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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by hinkley on Thursday February 14, 2019 @03:20AM (#19160421)
As a Boeing employee once explained it to me:

If you take off two engines, you have to redesign the wings. If you’re redesigning the wings, you might as well do the whole aircraft.

Implication being that the fuselage is a fraction of the cost of an airplane design.

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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by bb101 on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:00AM (#19160588)
I've heard that too. From an engineering POV, the aircraft _is_ the wings, and the fuselage is a simple tube in comparison.
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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by ggm on Thursday February 14, 2019 @02:46AM (#19160321)
I believe briefly a 380 did a sub 1hr flight in the ME possibly during crew training but with real commuter traffic
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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by gmac on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:38AM (#19160720)
BA flew them London - Paris for a short while early on. It was kind of ridiculous, not least because embarking/disembarking such a big plane took about as long as the flight.
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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by dx034 on Thursday February 14, 2019 @03:45AM (#19160519)
Emirates used the A380 for short-haul traffic but rotated planes so that they would only fly short-haul occasionally. Wear and tear would otherwise be too high.
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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by billfruit on Thursday February 14, 2019 @10:03AM (#19162319)
I think in China there is a scheduled A380 China Southern Airlines service Guangzhou to Shanghai.
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