Wiz Wiz Wiz, Stick to your simple lightie, your figures are wrong. The 380, carries 135 more passengers on said route. Lots of money there. Plus the punters prefer the comforts of the 380 (Bar, showers, more space, greater speed and less noise) than those of the worn out old 777.
For starters, neither we nor anyone else are finding enough pax to fill a 777, let alone a 380. Secondly, much as the F class on the 380 is nice, pax want to
Get there, which doesn't happen when toluses finest is in the hangar, or being 3-engine ferried from LHR.
You mention money- the cost-per-pax on the 777 is proving much lower than the 380 (even assuming you fill the 380, which no-one is) based on the
Actual, in service figures, not the fairy-tales AB spun in the brocure.
Flew one of our "Old" 777-300ERs last week- a whole 150hrs in the tech-log.
We fly aeroplanes to generate profits. This is proving much more difficult with the 380 than the 777 or even the 330.
Twins are more efficient than quads- make any comparison you like and you'll find that so.
Pourch Monkey- Yep, those are the stats!