Originally Posted by parabellum
...... despite airlines like BA and SIA ordering the B777 in large numbers and reducing their B747-400 fleet by equally large numbers.
Whilst you may be corrrect in your thoughts, you come over as being the source of all knowledge and adopt a parent-child attitude, then get a basic fact wrong!
BA have not reduced their B747-400 fleet numbers at all, I can't speak for SIA.