3 Reasons Behind the Premature Demise of the Airbus A380

Kevin Alexander
2 min readOct 21, 2021
Photo: CNN.com

The Airbus A380 was supposed to revolutionize the global travel market. Instead it never really took off. What happened?

Next month Airbus will deliver it’s last A380 “Superjumbo” aircraft. In an industry where production runs often span decades, this line will close after just 16 years.

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Kevin Alexander

Indie music journalist | Mixtape maker | EIC The Riff Magazine | Writer of the On Repeat Newsletter on Substack |