Qantas is scrapping an A380 that is only just over 10 yrs old

The airboose a380 - the french answer to things like the Boeing 777/787 - are already at their end-of-days and proving that the economics of super-jumbo's are so thinly wedged in positivity that only a little blip is needed to destroy their viability.

VH-QQF is the first one to go. I'm a tech gunzel so take interest in these things when the economics of engineering don't stack up.

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Northwest · M

The A-380 never really made sense. To make loading/unloading efficient, airports needed to be re-designed, and that never happened, resulting in forever long passenger onboarding times.

They also needed to be filled to make money, and that was't always possible.