BATTLE OF THE GIANTS

Are Airbus and Boeing’s super-sized aircraft heading for the scrap heap?

WORDS DAVID CHURCHILL

In 2007 the A380 was heralded as the start of a new generation of aircraft that would reshape air travel When Singapore International Airlines (SIA) became the first carrier to operate the Airbus A380 “superjumbo” commercially in October 2007, it was heralded as the start of a new generation of giant, long-haul aircraft that would reshape the way we travelled by air. After all, it was the world’s largest commercial airliner with the capacity to carry up to 800 passengers, eclipsing the previous “Queen of the Skies”, the Boeing 747 jumbo. Yet in October 2017 – a decade after it first flew commercially – the giant A380 aircraft, that had made an epic maiden voyage from Singapore to Sydney, was dispatched to a small airport between the towns of Lourdes and Tarbes…

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Business Traveller Asia-Pacific Edition (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2018

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