Airbus A380

It's just that no govt so far has forced airlines to use bigger planes on Indian trunk routes

The world's largest passenger plane Airbus A380 operated by Emirates' arrived at the Kempe Gowda International Airport in Bengaluru

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The services will start from January 10, 2022 between Mumbai and Singapore

That is in stark contrast to the spectacular light show that revealed the new behemoth in front of European leaders in 2005

In the internal email, cabin crew were told those affected would be notified within 24 hours, without saying how many would lose their jobs

Chief Executive Dave Calhoun says Boeing will stop building the iconic jet in 2022

Interestigly, the distance between Dubai and Muscat is only 340km, which is shorter than the 500km long wiring on an an Airbus A380, Emirates said on its Twitter account

With only 234 units delivered out of 313 ordered over 13 years, it is far from the break-even point - originally estimated at 1,200 aircraft over 20 years

The A380 isn't an important source of revenue - accounting for just 2 per cent of the company's aircraft deliveries in 2018 - and it doesn't make money

The United States has consistently called on Airbus to forego the European loans or pay them back at market rates

Production of the jumbo jet will end by 2021, after the A380's biggest customer, Emirates, and a handful of remaining buyers receive their last orders.

Orders from Emirates, the main customer of the supersize aircraft, have stalled over the past two years

Delivery came a day after Airbus said it was postponing the planned delivery of jets for a year

The build rate of the Airbus A380 will be slashed by more than half to one plane a month by 2018