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Limited places it can land and park (i.e. gates).
An airline executive once said (in an article) that a costly mistake an airline can make is to buy planes that are too large for their needs.
The chief problem with the 380 is that ATC has to give it five minutes separation from all other a/c. Nothing else requires more than three minutes. So at peak bank, when you’re trying to cram in arrivals and departures as much as possible, in an hour you can land (or take off) only 12 380s but 20 of anything else. Which also means you can service 20 different destinations instead of just 12.
Combine that with the fact that its limited by how many airports have runways and terminals big enough to accommodate it.
It’s literally the answer to the question no one was asking.