Originally Posted by
SecretAngel
Entirely possible. Even a week ago, I'd have said they wouldn't scrap the A380s early - and especially not until they'd seen how the crisis plays out. But, it's increasingly hard to see how demand recovers enough on the routes they'd want to use them on (Asia) for it to make much sense.
I'd still hope that they feel it'd be premature to retire any of the A380s.
Allegedly the early estimates are that it will be cheaper to pay the leases on parked A380’s than to magnify the losses by actually trying to operate them. But there are a lot of assumptions in whatever modelling they are doing, of course. Its eventually likely going to be better or worse than anyone’s current guess.