Airbus A380 completes 14 years of operations

The first A380 in commercial service took off from Singapore Changi bound for Sydney in October 2007, over 14 years ago. 
Since then, the number of A380 flights has climbed gradually, peaking at almost 125,000 in 2017. 
In 2008, the first full year, Singapore Airlines’ Sydney service was joined by Beijing, Heathrow, and Tokyo Narita. Emirates introduced the quadjet to Heathrow and JFK and Qantas from Los Angeles to Melbourne and Sydney.

It wasn’t until 2016 that A380 flights passed 100,000, with just shy of 114,000 recorded, a jump of 19pc year-over-year. While inevitably primarily driven by Emirates (+33pc), it was also from higher use by Etihad, British Airways, Asiana, Qatar Airways, and Qantas.
The peak year was 2017
Emirates has thus far had almost half (48pc) of all A380 flights. Because of this overwhelming dominance and the carrier’s flights across all aircraft declined between 2016 and 2019, the peak year for the double-decker was 2017.
Routes included various one-offs, such as Emirates to Bahrain, Boston, Colombo, Medinah, and Warsaw, and Air France to Atlanta. While Emirates’ Heathrow service had the most flights, as always, it was followed by Dubai-Bangkok and, less expectedly, Etihad’s Abu Dhabi-Heathrow offering was third.