Loved by passengers, feared by accountants - world’s largest airliner runs out of runwayAn Emirates Airbus A380-800 airliner prepares to land at Nice international airport, France, January 18, 2018. Airbus boasted it would sell 700-750 A380s, which nowadays cost $446 million at list prices, and render the 747 obsolete. Some insiders worry that Airbus will lose a valuable symbol of pride and commercial audacity when production ends in 2021. Now, airline bosses are seeking assurances that Airbus will support the A380 with spare parts for years to come. Emirates insists it plays fairly and has called the A380 a “passenger magnet,” misunderstood and badly marketed by rivals.

Source: Standard Digital February 14, 2019 08:26 UTC