Airbus is running out of buyers for its enormous A380s
Since its commercial introduction in 2007, the Airbus A380 has brought a long-lost sense of glamour back to travel. Financially speaking, it’s a disaster of similarly grand proportions. An initial flood of interest from airlines has turned into a slow drip, and Airbus is leaning heavily on one customer, Emirates, for sales. Not a single US carrier has bought one, and Japanese airlines have taken just a handful. Airbus has delivered 193 A380s—early on it predicted airlines would buy 1,200 supersize planes over 2 decades—and has only 126 in its order book, to be built over the next 5 years or so. Worse, many orders appear squishy, because airlines are shifting away from superjumbos. <br/>
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Airbus is running out of buyers for its enormous A380s
Since its commercial introduction in 2007, the Airbus A380 has brought a long-lost sense of glamour back to travel. Financially speaking, it’s a disaster of similarly grand proportions. An initial flood of interest from airlines has turned into a slow drip, and Airbus is leaning heavily on one customer, Emirates, for sales. Not a single US carrier has bought one, and Japanese airlines have taken just a handful. Airbus has delivered 193 A380s—early on it predicted airlines would buy 1,200 supersize planes over 2 decades—and has only 126 in its order book, to be built over the next 5 years or so. Worse, many orders appear squishy, because airlines are shifting away from superjumbos. <br/>
