The A380 is intended to be leased and operated by large airlines using expensive slots at major hub airports. It is of no interest to any other sort of airline. We can assume that such airlines will make their calculations on pure economic criteria, so the decision of one billionaire not to have one as a palace in the sky is "neither here nor there".
I think what is holding up sales is uncertainty at Board level, probably due to the odd world economic climate There are several airlines who "ought" to be buying it because it fits their pattern of operations. It's very hard to see why, for example, CX is not using it between its expensive slots at CLK and its expensive slots at LHR...
Last edited by Methersgate; 5th Feb 2015 at 22:13.