glofish
Actually gloie, he is right and you are not. If you had listened during your EK indoctrination lecture all those years ago you would know this. The Dubai economy growth is based on the Hong Kong and Singapore models. Where growth of the economy is directly proportional to the growth of their airline
For Dubai, and EK, 75% of passengers transit only, so the seat count that the Dubai government has set for EK is based on making that 25% equal how many spenders they need staying in Dubai. It has been this way since the airline started.
Your hub vs direct model is a Boeing model. And is why the 787 was born. It will work in most of the world, but it is not the model that Dubai uses.
From folk in route planning, if you have 5 380s coming into dubai you need 4 leaving to take the onwards pax. This is obviously not going to work when the world is shut down, but it was working up until March.
And no, they don't don't fly around half empty when the world is working. And no they don't need to only serve major destinations. MRU for example had two 380s per day, 1 2 class with over 600 seats and the other a 3 class with over 500 seats. They were both full. As were the other destinations it served.
If we didn't have the 120 380s we would have needed 180 777s to replace them. How many would be redundant now if that was the case.
The sooner the world returns to normal the sooner we can get workmates re employed. You have argued the same thing for 16yrs. You are still wrong, but now it is tiresome, and at the same time insensitive to those that have been let go from their jobs, either by redundancy or LWOP.