I bet all the city's and airport authorities who spent millions upgrading runways and terminals are thrilled they wasted all that cash
Wonder if they say the same about the investments they had to make when the 747 was introduced? They invested because they thought they had read the market. No one knows where the airline market is headed at the moment, but pre Covid I was still of the belief, right or wrong, that with the then forecast growth that very large aircraft would have a place as the airspace became saturated. An airport can only handle a fixed number of movements per hour.