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Own A Piece Of Emirates Airlines Very First Airbus A380
18.10.2023 - 05:39 / forbes.com / Airlines / Emirates Airlines
With the holiday season coming up, what better gift to give your favorite Airbus A380 fan than an aluminum tag made from the great plane, all boxed up and authenticated? This aircraft “skin tag” is made from the recycled materials of a special plane, A6-EDA, the very first Airbus A380 delivered to Emirates Airlines in July 2008.
You could use the tag, with the name of your favorite A380 destination airport, to mark your luggage. But most will sit on shelves and desks to admire.
There is a certain mystique about the Airbus A380, the largest passenger airliner ever built. The A380 is the only passenger airliner with two full decks. In maximum capacity mode it can hold 853 people. Most airlines operate it with seating for “only” 500. This still requires a special airport jet bridge and a crew of 21. The plane’s four Rolls-Royce engines each generate up to 70,000 pounds of thrust, helpful in getting its million pounds of take-off weight (560 tons) off the ground. That fuel load comes in handy on long A380 flights, like Dresden, Germany, to Sydney, Australia, a matter of 8,600 nautical miles.
The A380 has always been a passenger favorite for its size, comfort and class. Airlines were more muted in their affection, as the plane is expensive to operate, considering crew size, fuel consumption and airport requirements. It is also much more difficult to sell 500 tickets for a given flight than, say, 180.
“The A380 was one [airplane] every passenger wanted to fly, but ultimately, no airline wanted to buy,” as I said in Smithsonian. Airbus spent $34 billion dollars developing the A380, most of which came from European taxpayers. The cost per plane was said to be $445 million each.
The planes cost problems were exacerbated by the Coronavirus pandemic, which nearly shut down international travel for more than two years. Airbus canceled production of the great plane in 2021, after just 251 were built.
However, if there has been a successful operator of the Airbus A380, it is Emirates Airlines. Emirates bought about 120 of the planes, nearly half of production, and deployed them like so many flying buses at Dubai (DXB) International Airport. A plane might fly in from London, disembark its passengers, and a few hours later, another might take them to India, Auckland or other far-flung destinations. Dubai had 88 million passengers pass through in 2019, many of whom came and went on the giant Airbus.
The A6-EDA pioneered this process. Emirate’s first A380 completed 6,319 flights, visited 62 destinations, and carried over 2.1 million passengers. It flew a total of 55,863 flight hours, more than six and a half years in the air.
When the plane was retired in April 2020, it was recycled by Falcon Aircraft Recycling at Al
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