have always been big fans of the three eighty and have given the plane high marks for comfort space and for the quiet ride but airlines have been cautious about committing to the costly double decker planes and in the end they just weren t willing to pay the massive price tag to own the flying b.m. of the a three eighty had troubles from the start including change ins between airbus french and german management and protracted production delays and cost overruns those prompted a company restructuring that cost thousands of jobs after quantas canceled orders and emirates cancelled thirty nine the company says it will simply put an end to production of the a three eighty by twenty twenty one. and for more let s bring in a financial market correspondent joins us in frankfurt only as far as i can tell this doesn t really come as a surprise does it you know it s been a long time coming in fact about two years ago already the outgoing airbus chief
and fill an aircraft that can seat about eight hundred or more passengers you first have to sell those tickets and i was very difficult for for those few airlines who actually bought the a three eighty and of course it is because of its size it s a four engine aircraft and those four engines their very first day they use an awful lot of fuel and that is very costly so a lot of airlines rather switched to smaller also long haul airline jets which now only have two engines and they re much more sufficient so what was the big mistake from airbus there was a trying to go for a plane that was just too big you know i don t think they could dig couldn t read the sign of the times they thought that aviation would go the way that passengers would like to go from one major air hop to another big aviation hop and then maybe switch to a swallow aircraft in order to get to their final destination and clearly this is not what s been happening also because of those more fuel efficient two engine jets
connection on earth without refueling as impressive as it sounds only eighteen airlines found that the a three eighty was actually worth the investment of the major customers were emirates also singapore airlines the australian carrier quantas and also the european airlines lufthansa and air france now air bus was counting on getting a demand of one thousand two hundred eighty two planes when it launched a decade ago but in the end only three hundred thirteen orders actually came through was the price of fuel jump and more economical plane designs became popular . the era of the airbus a three eighty super jumbo passenger jet is coming to a close the a three eighty took off for the first time in two thousand and eight and seats five hundred passengers the company had hoped that the plane would squeeze out boeing seven forty seven and revolutionize air travel passengers have always been big fans of the three eighty and have given the plane high marks for
product brought volume to the airlines they could pack in more than eight hundred fifty passengers in a single flight if the market increasingly demanded the opposite smaller twin engine planes that could fly directly to their final destinations like the boeing dreamliner or airbus is a three fifty the massive a three eighty travel between hubs as competition grew across the industry and margins tightened unsold seats in the a three eighty became even more expensive for the airlines. emirates was said to be the only airline that could operate the jet on the necessary scale as late as last year it seemed the airline might keep the a three eighty aloft embers and i have no doubt but we will produce great creative use even ten years from now that hope quickly faded emirates waffled on its order and has now announced it will reduce the number of the new jetliners for air bus and perhaps the e.u. as well an abrupt end to a thirty year old vision. of
that were almost imitating this leak developed and that that were much more attractive and the a three eighty again the size you don t have many airports that can actually host this this and i do brazil for for example doesn t have a single airport where the a three eighty would fit the latin america africa no airline they are bought the a three eighty so that was good right the end of the a three eighty for airbus monica johnson did of your business thank you so much. now the u.s. and israel are leading a new push to take a more aggressive stance on iran at a conference in the polish capital warsaw delegates from more than sixty countries are meeting for talks on security in the middle east israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and u.s. vice president mike pence are a headline meeting foreign ministers from many arab nations are also attending but several countries did not send high ranking delegations including france and germany. was