Thank you and goodnight

The A380 program will now shutter upon the final Emirates delivery in 2021. This brings to an end little over 15 years of production. I can recall when crowds lined the banks of the A1 outside Paris to catch a glimpse of this fabulous aircraft. Much like the Concorde some 50 years previously, the A380 will go down in history as an icon of civil aviation that in the end just did not make commercial sense for many airlines. That is of course where the similarities with Concorde cease, but one cannot help but think that Airbus, Engine Alliance, Rolls-Royce