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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by Shivetya on Thursday February 14, 2019 @05:38AM (#19160918)
well part of your statement applies to why jumbos don't work, you have to expand airports to support them, in particular you cannot have as many gates servicing them compared to other planes within the same space.

Plus besides the exterior space needed for the gate the interior space for handling so many people loading and offloading is the equivalent to two or more planes.

Even Boeing recently went to folding wing tips to fit their newest super efficient designs into existing gate setups.

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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by coredog64 on Thursday February 14, 2019 @07:00AM (#19161236)
The 777 design included the ability to support folding wingtips as an option. They put it in at a customer’s request (American IIRC) and then never used it.
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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by huffmsa on Thursday February 14, 2019 @07:09AM (#19161277)
Pretty sure they haven't released the folding wings yet. First flight is 2019Q2. First delivery 2020. 326 on order.
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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by sbradford26 on Thursday February 14, 2019 @07:36AM (#19161403)
So the 777x is the one you are talking about and it will come standard with folding wingtips, but the original 777 had an option for folding wingtips and no one ordered them.

I am not sure if Boeing had it developed and never used it, or no one ordered it so they never developed it.

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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by xxpor on Thursday February 14, 2019 @10:10AM (#19162384)
Notably, the folding tips on the 777x get the wingspan down to the original 777 span.

Theyre in the middle of building what I think was the first 777x. We saw it in the Everett factory last Friday.

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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by Reason077 on Thursday February 14, 2019 @07:22AM (#19161330)
The new 777X models all have folding wingtips. It's part of the standard design, not an option.
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