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A380 has flown in our skies now for years with production first beginning in 2005,
issues plagued the type early on which meant its entry into service would be delayed.
However, since it entered it has helped change the inside of aircraft forever with the airlines that
chose to fly the type being able to adjust their cabins, from showers to a new state of the art
apartments like what Etihad Airways have on their Airbus A380s. However, all this came to a crashing
halt in February of 2019 when Emirates announced they had canceled a significant part of their
remaining Airbus A380s which in conclusion meant that production would cease on the type in 2021.
With 2021 rapidly approaching production on the Airbus A380 is quickly wrapping up and in doing so
the final ever Airbus A380 to be produced rolled out of the final assembly line in France. While
this is the final Airbus A380 to have been rolled out the A380s aren’t done just yet,
there’s still 9 deliveries that need to be completed for the type with one for ANA
and then the remaining 8 all going to Emirates. A special event was held for
employees of the aircraft manufacturer to help celebrate building the final Airbus A380. MSN
272, will head to Emirates who have already at this point over 100 of the type. Talk has
surrounded the future of these aircraft with the carrier but the Emirates executives have said that
they intend on keeping the aircraft through to the early 2030s at the very least. This would mean the
type could be likely flying for around 25 years by the time the final Airbus A380 is retired,
while that’d be a good gig and it’s hard to compare it to the Boeing 747 due to the change in
the climate that has flown for now over 50 years. Albeit if the A380 was the one that
launched 50 years ago it’d probably be a totally different situation we would be in.
However, what can’t be forgotten is the impact the type has had in its short spell in the industry.
Emirates has been long supporters of the Airbus A380, in fact,
without them the A380 program wouldn’t be the same in the slightest.
While the A380plus seemingly came and went very quickly and Airbus never acted
on Emirates’ keen eye for a re-engined A380-800 that’d be known as the A380neo.
Whether or not an aircraft like the A380 has a future in the coming years is another question