Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021

Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by ekianjo on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:43AM (#19160749)

The A380 was planned for a world where people travel between big hubs before hopping to another flight to reach their destination. That world exists only for a small amount of destinations and for most other routes the A380 would be mostly empty and therefore widely uneconomical to use. Instead bireactor planes are now allowed to travel further and further away, making region to region traffic a lot more realistic than 20 years ago. And that is where the traffic is increasing the most.

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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by speedplane on Thursday February 14, 2019 @06:32AM (#19161123)

Creating a commercial airline is one of the most complex business endeavors one can take one. Such a huge amount of variables, along with predictions about flight technology, supply/demand, customer service, and fuel costs are a necessary part of it.

I with there was a Sim-Airline game.

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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by jpatokal on Thursday February 14, 2019 @07:46AM (#19161451)

There are a bunch. This looks very low-tech, but is completely free and kinda fun for a while:

http://www.airline-empires.com/index.php?/page/home.html

This is much more slick:

http://www.airlinesim.aero/en

But none come close to the complexity of the real thing, and the models are unrealistic/can fairly easily be "hacked" (print money by giving away flights but charging $1000 for meals, etc).

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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by ceejayoz on Thursday February 14, 2019 @08:54AM (#19161834)

I haven't found one with the right mix of fun and complexity. They're all either super fluffy with five minutes worth of gameplay, or spreadsheet managers like EVE (without even the pretty graphics to accompany it).

Same thing for airport simulators.

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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by bronco21016 on Thursday February 14, 2019 @09:19AM (#19161999)

I can’t remember the name at all but there was a very interesting web-based airline sim we ran when I was in school for aviation. There weren’t any fancy graphics or anything though. You just bought airplanes, set routes and prices, and managed your finances. A fiscal quarter would run every few days. It was a lot of fun!

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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by pault on Thursday February 14, 2019 @09:44AM (#19162190)

Sorry to be that guy, but further is typically used for figurative distances, while farther is preferred for literal distances. I always remember this because it was a plot point in a crappy movie with Sean Connery.

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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by logifail on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:36PM (#19166289)

OED says not so clear-cut:

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/usage/farther-or-further

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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by pault on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:56PM (#19166458)

> typically used

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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by mark-r on Thursday February 14, 2019 @12:33PM (#19163815)

That wouldn't be The Avengers, would it? That movie was so bad that I've blocked out all memory of it, other than to remember how bad it was. It does tend to confuse people though when I tell them the worst movie I've ever seen was The Avengers.

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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by mark-r on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:25PM (#19166203)

In case it wasn't clear, I was NOT talking of the Marvel movie with the same name.

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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by godson_drafty on Thursday February 14, 2019 @10:40AM (#19162676)

Thank you. I've been meaning to look that up for years.

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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by kartickv on Thursday February 14, 2019 @10:27PM (#19168236)

Is it a cost vs convenience tradeoff? I'd rather travel point to point, but if the A380 is undercuts that because it's more cost-effective, many people would put up with it to save money.

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