Woah,I didn't see this one coming! Airbus has really been struggling with selling the A380, as they haven't received very many firm orders for the plane in the past few years. They've even considered stopping production altogether.
While Emirates loves the plane and is basically taking as many as they can obtain, or other airlines aren't finding the A380 fairly as practical,instead choosing the Boeing 787 or Airbus A350. After all, there are only so many routes where a 500+ seat plane makes sense. While many airlines can fill 500+ seats, and it generally leads to lower yields,given that not all seats can be sold at tall fares.
The only new A380 "activity" we've seen lately has been from ANA, which is ordering three A380s. They seem to want to fly these primarily to Hawaii, or so I suspect they may be the highest density A380s yet (probably even higher density than Emirates' 615 seat two class A380s). And even ANA didn't really want to buy the A380s,but rather was sort of forced into it because of their deal with Skymark.
But now there's a new A380 operator on the horizon, and it's one I really didn't see coming.
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Source: boardingarea.com