Airbus A380

Also known as Superjumbo

Cause of death

Killed by indifference

with killed by a successor as a contributing factor

Made by

Airbus

Emirates dropped an order for 39 aircraft in February 2019, leaving Airbus without enough demand to keep the production line open.

Airbus spent an estimated 25 billion dollars on a double-decker built for a hub-and-spoke future that never arrived, and never earned it back. It sold 251. Emirates took 123 of them, then traded its remaining order for 40 A330-900s and 30 A350-900s, which ended the argument. The last A380 was handed over in Hamburg on 16 December 2021, fourteen years and two months after the first one carried passengers.