Airbus announces end of production of the superjumbo A380

Airbus has announced that it will stop producing the A380, the largest passenger plane in the world, inform the international news agencies on Thursday (14). The last model will be delivered in 2021. The aviation giant has decided to terminate the production of the superjumbo after your biggest customer of this aircraft, Emirates, reduce claims and replace them with smaller, more economical models. "We have no basis for sustaining production, despite all our sales efforts for other airlines in recent years," said Tom Enders, CEO of Airbus, according to the CNN network. The A380 arrived at the market for 14 years, in a gigantic Airbus bet. The company delivered 234 superjumbos until today, less than a quarter of the 1,200 for sell. Emirates has 100 A380 in your fleet. The plane can carry more than 800 passengers. Airbus's plans were thwarted by airlines returned attention to passenger jets are lighter and more economical. "Today's announcement is painful for us and for the communities of the A380 worldwide", said Enders. "But the A380 still fly for many years and Airbus will continue to support the operators of the A380".