further evidence emerged on sunday of the severe downturn in the aviation sector as india pulls its giant configured a380s off the sydney to san york schedule . the airline attributed the weakened global economy for the decision , an embarrassing u - turn only eight months after its a380 services were launched with the new york region . emirates ' failure to make its york work with the a380 has raise concern about the large scale of the double - decker aircraft pulled by the carrier . it is the a380 ' s highest customer and has ordering 58 of the 500 - seat type . it operates two to new york , one to airports and one to sydney .
A380 has only 58 seats.