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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While there are still spoke and hub routes. Most of the hubs now have more spokes. And when the 747 was designed of you wanted to fly from NYC to LAX you usually had to have at least one stop over around Str. Louis to refuel. The 747 got rid of that stop over and now got people directly to the west coast. Where they hopped on routes to their final destinations on the spokes out of lax. Over time how the air lines got routes changed as well less government selling the rights to use them to government allowing airlines to choose their own. The 380 was never sold on high numbers since only profitable way to fly it was over long distances that resembled the old get a lot of people to one major hub load the plane there to take them to next major hub so they can get back on smaller planes to their final destinations.
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