Right, point by point then, ignoring spelling and grammar because clearly it doesn’t matter to you whether people can understand what you write or not…
“im sure you have a super duper job comparing various airplanes for your comapny,”
Yes, I do. It’s fun. I see the manufacturers at least weekly. Do you think that qualifies me to comment on why airlines buy any particular aircraft? Or do you still believe they are bought because of the way they look? If so, I'll take a dozen DC-3s, please.
“well done mate,”
Very kind of you, thank you.
“your parents must be very proud indeed!”
I’m sure they are.
“good point well made, what-ever!”
Gibberish
“maybe it is you who is confusing infer with perhaps...imply?”
No, I don’t think so.
“again whats your point?”
My point is to know what the sentence that I quoted in my previous post was supposed to infer – what were you trying to suggest? Plastic Airbus? A320 is about 15% composite. 787 will be about 50% composite. Which one is the plastic aeroplane?
“you didnt understand the point or the sentence?”
No, I was emphasising that you are contradicting yourself. You said: “what i said was its a great lower end model to compete against A319 or B737 etc.” I emphasised that that is not what you inferred – you were inferring that the “plastic Airbus” is inferior to the 737s and the Embraers in your previous post.
“i think your grasping at straws there, let it go. as far as typo's are concerned, well if i mess up the occasional word here or there please feel free to correct it”
Thanks, I probably will. I won’t bother for now though – it’d take too long.
“with your french dictionary ...yawn!”
I mentioned that in my opinion the Embraers were a bit of “bricolage”. That’s a French word. You accused me of slandering them. I still suggest that you look up “bricolage” to understand what I was saying and then you will see there’s no slander involved.
“as for FR v EZ , who really cares, neither one of them are going for the a380.”
I couldn’t really care less. YOU were the one who brought up FR and their slaughtering of EZ, not me.
“but if you love easy soooo much feel free to believe they are tops!”
They beat FR hands down in terms of service – and they go to places I want to go to, not somewhere 50 miles away.
“now do you have anything interesting to say on topic (ie a380 relevant)”
I could, but I think I’ll refrain from discussing it with you for the time being. Re-heat makes the main salient points anyway. Your “no airports can handle it” and “runways are too short for it” comments show an astounding lack of knowledge on the subject anyway, so what would be the point discussing it with you?
“or are you going to keep harping on about spelling mistakes and typos”
Learn to write and discuss properly and there’ll be no need to.
“and your great job comparing aircraft for your company”
Well it lets me be qualified to discuss aircraft comparisons objectively, doesn’t it?
“let me gues your the best of the best of the best at comparing aircraft in your particular company and therefore you know it all.”
I’m so happy that you think so. How many people do you think run aircraft evaluations for airlines or leasing companies or banks, by the way? Do you imagine it’s hundreds or only a handful?
“well done! ”
Thank you. I still await your answer to my questions, point by point, instead of waving your hand "whatever!"
U.S. carriers are in no position to be ordering the A380 – or any aircraft – at the moment. Take a look how many orders there have been from the U.S. legacy carriers. Only 2 ordered the 747-400 as a passenger aircraft and both of them are in Chapter 11. The A380 will introduce a quantum leap drop in operating costs for the airlines – extremely important with fuel today at over $2.00 per USG. Those airlines with intercontinental hub to hub strategies will order it in droves (hence 159 orders for a machine not yet in service – not bad for an aircraft costing close to $300 million). The 787 will do the same but will not be able to do it at slot constrained airports. Thus it’ll offer the same drop but to secondary markets. Yes it will get more orders than the A380 but it’s less than half the price, about 1/3 the size and so an airline will need to order more of them – it is only logical.
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