COVID-19: the fatal blow to the A380?

In the late 1960s, the Boeing 747 revolutionised aviation, introducing the concept of the widebody aircraft and attempted, already back then, to alleviate the growing problem of airport congestion. Some 40 years later, the Airbus A380 was designed and built for the same purpose, only bigger.

The COVID-19 pandemic, and its expected effects on the long term prospect of the aviation industry, is challenging the very existence of this category of planes, the Very Large Aircraft (VLA). Can it survive?