the future of the three d. itself the australian airline ordered the jets in two thousand and six but since then they ve switched to lighter more fuel efficient passenger jets a worldwide trend the a three eighty is too heavy and uses too much jet fuel which wouldn t be as much of a problem if fuel prices had gone down but instead they ve almost doubled since twenty sixteen. so it s not surprising that another major air bus customer is taking off to the dubai airline emirates allegedly wants to cancel its existing orders for fifty three units at least in part that could mean the end of the world s largest passenger aircraft. so the a three eighty certainly hasn t been airbus is a cash cow with a price tag of nearly half a billion dollars it s been a steadily steady contributor to the company s revenue and overall air bus has managed to put two hundred thirty four of the super jumbos in the air not bad at all but the golden times of roughly eighty orders per year those are all but over
three eighty kept plummeting the group was forced to reduce annual production from thirty to just eight aircraft this year and those eight have yet to be delivered. quantas dropping the planes represents a four billion u.s. dollars loss for the european aircraft manufacturer and it s raised doubts about the future of the three d. itself the australian airline ordered the jets in two thousand and six but since then they ve switched to lighter more fuel efficient passenger jets a worldwide trend the a three eighty is too heavy and uses too much jet fuel which wouldn t be as much of a problem if fuel prices had gone down but instead they ve almost doubled since twenty sixteen so it s not surprising that another major air bus customer is taking off to the dubai airline emirates allegedly wants to cancel its existing orders for fifty three units at least in part that could mean the end of the world s largest passenger aircraft. so the a three eighty certainly hasn t been airbus is