I read an article about the Airbus A380 (Let’s call it an A380 from now on) and why the production of A380s ended. The article cited 2 reasons for end of production of A380s: Point-to-point transit is more common in aviation nowadays, which didn’t make sense for me because, in reality, most airlines (With the exception of some budget airlines) use hub-and-spoke transit instead; And the fact that the A380 is a quadjet, which makes because twinjets are cheaper for airlines and ETOPS exist. With both the A380 and the Boeing 747 out of production, twinjets (The Airbus A350 and the Boeing 777X in particular) have taken over and they sadly, however, have only one deck, and that explains the title question. Sorry for the post being long
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So the A380 in particular is so big that most airports in the US that could handle them needed redesigned taxiways and gates. And some airports have special procedures for the A380 when it is moving because of how large it is. This really limits what airports can take the A380.
Also the ability of the B787 and the A350 to cover international distances while also not needing any new infrastructure (ie: it can use existing gates, taxiways, and runway lengths) allows for the opening up and experimenting of airlines into new markets or “secondary” airports that it is cheaper to fly into.
For example: in the Bay Area, it is more expensive to fly into SFO. But airlines can open up routes to OAK and SJC which allow for them to try to open a route between say China and the SFO Bay Area but at a cheaper cost by flying in and out of SJC.
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