TOULOUSE, France—Initial assembly has been completed on the Airbus A380, the last ever superjumbo, after it was announced in 2019 that the European airplane manufacturer was discontinuing the plane.
Since the superjumbo's first delivery to Singapore Airlines in 2007, more than 240 A380s have rolled off the line at the Jean-Luc Lagardere plant, a purpose-built Airbus facility at Toulouse-Blagnac Airport in southern France. Initial assembly of the final double-decker jet, serial number 272, has been completed, with manufacturing station 40 now out of work.