From May 27th to June 2nd, there are 53 A380-operated routes globally with Emirates, Singapore Airlines, British Airways, Qatar Airways, Qantas, China Southern, and Korean Air. According to ch-aviation, these carriers have 87 active double-deckers. Here's where they're flying.

53 routes this week: a summary

Significantly, the 53 airport pairs include five that will shift to the A380 on June 1st: Dubai to Seoul and Washington Dulles with Emirates, London Heathrow to Chicago and Vancouver with British Airways, and Doha to Sydney with Qatar Airways.

As you'd expect, Emirates has far more routes than all the other carriers combined. The breakdown is as follows:

  • Emirates: 34 A380 routes May 27th-June 2nd (see below)
  • Singapore Airlines: 6 (see below)
  • British Airways: 6
  • Qatar Airways: 4
  • Qantas: 1
  • China Southern: 1
  • Korean Air: 1

Emirates and Singapore Airlines have one-stop services: Dubai to Milan and onto JFK, and Singapore to Frankfurt and onto JFK. As Milan-JFK and Frankfurt-JFK have fifth-freedom traffic rights, they're treated as separate routes.

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Korean Air has only one weekly A380 flight at the moment, but that will change soon. Photo: Vincenzo Pace | Simple Flying.

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Routes with over 1 daily A380 flight

With six daily flights, Emirates to London Heathrow is overwhelmingly the world's leading A380 route. It has the same number as it did in the comparable period in 2019. Perhaps more interesting is Sydney increasing to twice-daily on March 1st and Melbourne on May 1st.

  1. Emirates: Dubai to Heathrow, 6 daily A380 flights May 27th-June 2nd
  2. Emirates: Dubai to New York JFK, 3 daily (2 Dubai-JFK, 1 via Milan)
  3. Emirates: Dubai to Cairo, 2 daily
  4. Emirates: Dubai to Jeddah, 2 daily
  5. Emirates: Dubai to Manchester, 2 daily
  6. Emirates: Dubai to Melbourne, 2 daily
  7. Emirates: Dubai to Milan, 2 daily (1 Dubai-Milan, 1 Dubai-Milan and onto JFK)
  8. Emirates: Dubai to Paris CDG, 2 daily
  9. Emirates: Dubai to Sydney, 2 daily
  10. Qatar Airways: Doha to Heathrow, 2 daily
  11. Emirates: Dubai to Moscow Domodedovo, 13 weekly
  12. Emirates: Dubai to Vienna, 9 weekly
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Paris will not see the Qatar Airways' A380s next summer, although it could change. Photo: Getty Images.

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Routes with 1 daily A380 flight

Various once-daily A380 routes have returned recently, such as British Airways to Boston on May 9th. It operates BA213, departing London at 11:15 and arriving in Massachusetts at 13:35. Returning, BA212 leaves at 19:15 and arrives back at 06:50.

  1. British Airways: Heathrow to Boston, 1 daily A380 flights May 27th-June 2nd
  2. British Airways: Heathrow to Miami, 1 daily
  3. British Airways: Heathrow to San Francisco, 1 daily
  4. British Airways: Heathrow to Washington Dulles, 1 daily
  5. Emirates: Dubai to Amman, 1 daily
  6. Emirates: Dubai to Amsterdam, 1 daily
  7. Emirates: Dubai to Brisbane, 1 daily
  8. Emirates: Dubai to Düsseldorf, 1 daily
  9. Emirates: Dubai to Frankfurt, 1 daily
  10. Emirates: Dubai to Hamburg, 1 daily
  11. Emirates: Dubai to Istanbul, 1 daily
  12. Emirates: Dubai to Johannesburg, 1 daily
  13. Emirates: Dubai to London Gatwick, 1 daily
  14. Emirates: Dubai to Los Angeles, 1 daily
  15. Emirates: Dubai to Madrid, 1 daily
  16. Emirates: Dubai to Mauritius, 1 daily
  17. Emirates: Dubai to Mumbai, 1 daily
  18. Emirates: Dubai to Munich, 1 daily
  19. Emirates: Dubai to San Francisco, 1 daily
  20. Emirates: Dubai to São Paulo, 1 daily
  21. Emirates: Dubai to Zurich, 1 daily
  22. Emirates: Milan Malpensa to New York JFK, 1 daily
  23. Qatar Airways: Doha to Bangkok, 1 daily
  24. Qatar Airways: Doha to Paris CDG, 1 daily
  25. Singapore Airlines: Frankfurt to New York JFK, 1 daily
  26. Singapore Airlines: Singapore to Delhi, 1 daily
  27. Singapore Airlines: Singapore to Heathrow, 1 daily
  28. Singapore Airlines: Singapore to Mumbai, 1 daily
  29. Singapore Airlines: Singapore to Frankfurt and onto New York JFK, 1 daily
  30. Singapore Airlines: Singapore to Sydney, 1 daily
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All the Star Alliance carrier's A380 routes are once-daily. Photo: Andrew Curran | Simple Flying.

A380 routes with less than 1 daily flight

Five of the 11 routes listed below switch to the A380 this week, that's why the number of flights is so low. Had I looked at next week instead, they'd all be once-daily. Others, like Emirates' five-weekly Toronto services, are the consequence of traffic rights, while still others, especially involving China, are limited by pandemic restrictions.

Qantas' Sydney-Los Angeles service isn't once-daily as on May 31st QF11 is operated by the B787-9 rather than the A380.

  1. Qantas: Sydney to Los Angeles, 6 weekly A380 flights May 27th-June 2nd
  2. Emirates: Dubai to Bangkok, 5 weekly
  3. British Airways: Heathrow to Chicago, 2 weekly (switching to the A380 on June 1st)
  4. British Airways: Heathrow to Vancouver, 2 weekly (switching to the A380 on June 1st)
  5. China Southern: Guangzhou to Los Angeles, 2 weekly
  6. Emirates: Dubai to Seoul, 2 weekly (switching to the A380 on June 1st)
  7. Emirates: Dubai to Toronto, 5 weekly
  8. Emirates: Dubai to Washington Dulles, 2 weekly (switching to the A380 on June 1st)
  9. Qatar Airways: Doha to Sydney, 2 weekly (switching to the A380 on June 1st)
  10. Emirates: Dubai to Guangzhou, 1 weekly
  11. Korean Air: Seoul to Guangzhou, 1 weekly

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