The post-pandemic recovery of commercial aviation may have an early, unlikely protagonist: the A380 superjumbo.
-- although not before 2023 -- and there are reasons to believe that more A380s will progressively soar back into the skies.
Qantas, which is operating three out of its 12 A380s on the Sydney-Singapore-London route, confirmed to CNN Travel that it aims to have a total of six back into service before the end of the year, with a plan to reinstate four more by 2024 . That's not all. For some airlines, putting the plane back into service makes sense because the value of the aircraft has fallen so much that it's no longer possible to sell them.
Two airlines, Thai and Malaysia, have in fact put all of their A380s up for sale, but haven't found any buyers yet. The only other holdout so far is Etihad; the Abu Dhabi-based airline has 10 in its fleet, but isn't operating any and it currently has no firm plans to do so.Compared to the gloomy predictions of two years ago, it might now be time to imagine a rosier future for the superjumbo.
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