The Final Airbus A380 Has Been Assembled

Re:The Final Airbus A380 Has Been Assembled by realityking on Thursday September 24, 2020 @08:17AM (#24577842)

Except perhaps for the A321 XLR in the future, the 737 and A320 series don’t remotely compete on the routes the A380 was designed for.

The big shift is away from Spoke-Hub-Hub-Spoke flights to Spoke-Hub-Spoke flights (in each case cut off one spoke if your origin or destination is a Hub). The 787 and later A350 allow airlines to serve many more secondary destinations from their hubs, eliminating the need for a 2nd transfer.

There’s really no market for longhaul (intercontinental) P2P flights without a Hub at one end. The A321 XLR might change that, we‘ll see.

Except for some rare exceptions, the A380 is mainly suitable as a Hub-Hub shuttle.

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Re:The Final Airbus A380 Has Been Assembled by bobthepanda on Thursday September 24, 2020 @01:21PM (#24581010)

I wouldn't say there's no market. There just haven't been new planes built for it in a while. 757s are old, relatively inefficient planes and Boeing just scrapped the NMA.

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