1 week Ago By James Pearson
The US has the third-highest number of Airbus A380 flights after the UAE and UK. Nine US airports see the superjumbo: Boston, Dallas/Fort Worth, Honolulu, Houston Intercontinental, Los Angeles, Miami, New York JFK, San Francisco, and Washington Dulles. Some, like Boston, see the type seasonally.
Eight of the world's 10 double-decker users have US flights: All Nippon, Asiana, British Airways, Emirates, Etihad, Korean Air, Lufthansa, and Qantas. Only Qatar Airways and Singapore Airlines do not use the type there. Qatar Airways had one roundtrip service in 2016, while Singapore Airlines used the type regularly from 2011 to 2020 and from 2022 to 2023.
Dallas/Fort Worth will have no A380 flights in November/December 2024 or from April to July 2025, although Qantas will fly the type there from August 2025. When all operators are considered, Los Angeles will have up to eight daily superjumbo departures next summer, more than previously scheduled. Atlanta no longer has the A380 The world's busiest airport had double-decker quadjet service from 2013 to 2017 and again in 2019.
Atlanta had two regular A380 operations by two SkyTeam carriers, along with a one-off service by a one world member: Korean Air from Seoul Incheon; an up-to-daily service from September 2013 to March 2017 Air France from Paris CDG; a one-off roundtrip operation on December 12, 2017, then daily March 2019-October 2019; Air France has since retired the type Qatar Airways from Doha; a one-off roundtrip operation on June 1, 2016, to mark the carrier's first Atlanta flight; the 777-200LR then took over The A380 is no longer at Chicago O'Hare The Illinois airport has seen two users, although only one was regular: Emirates was the first carrier to fly the A380 to O'Hare, albeit with only one roundtrip operation on July 19, 2016. This was to test gates and broader infrastructure that was developed to handle the type at the airport British Airways daily summer seasonally from London Heathrow between May 2018 and October 2018 and from March 2019 to October 2019. The carrier returned in June 2022 and operated year-round until December 2023 In the A380's final month, BA295 left the UK's busiest airport at 11:00 and arrived in O'Hare at 13:55 local time.
BA294 then departed at 17:00 and got back to Europe at 06:40+1. Will O'Hare see the A380 again? Finally, there is Orlando Orlando is Florida's busiest airport and the USA's seventh-busiest facility. It had just one roundtrip A380 service.
It was more than nine years ago, on September 1, 2015, when Emirates flew the equipment to celebrate its first flight to Orlando. On September 2, the Boeing 777-200LR was flown; I wonder if the passengers were disappointed..
