Originally Posted by
Going Boeing
I
I suspect that Qantas had to bring them back as they don’t have sufficient capacity in long range twins to fly the routes. The A350 will probably be ordered fairly soon and it will pair with the B787 doing long range, point to point routes, with the A380 being moved to medium range (9-11 hours) routes where it has much better potential to be profitable.
Qantas has plenty of capacity, and will get more with the plan to run A330s to HNL. A380s are coming back to service ports that are slot limited, LHR and LAX being prime examples, that’s it’s sweet spot and the airline has stated as such.