I do not know how many times that threaders must realise that a full a/c does not mean a great deal of profit. For all of the full a/c we have many others flying empty by comparison. I was told yesterday that the A380 @ LHR is only showing about 280-300 a flight. For those of us working at LHR you can feel how quite it is by the lack of travellers and traffic jams around the airport. Having worked last week @ LGW and MAN both airports were painfully quite at times.