The earlier they start using the big thing for what it was designed for, instead of showing off on long range destinations, the better!
Its a fg "people mover" so use it for BKK, DEL, BOM etc with full load and it will pay off!!
Despite current (perhaps short term, while the Oz flights remain full?) plans for the Whale to operate daily direct to Sydney as of 1st May, I've heard rumours that your suggestion has sunk in with the Powers That Be in EK and that the One Eightly
(sorry, couldn't resist that) the 380 will be used more on 7 hour sectors rather than the ULH flights in future. Something about its inability to carry any freight (or a full complement of pax and baggage) if there are any weather requirements at destination on a 13 hour sector.
...and the
mind-boggling extra fuel burn (for not a hell of lot more payload) when compared with the Boeing 'light twin' on a ULH sector. If the uplift and burn figures I've had quoted to me by Whale drivers for JFK and SYD direct to DXB services are accurate, (as I'm sure they are), the
PR man they've employed to spin the Whale as a "green" aeroplane will need to be creative in the extreme to sell that line to the public.
On the positive side, everyone who flys in it says it's a winner in the passenger comfort stakes. Recently out of LHR, the Whale went tech and some of its pax were transferred to one of the original 773s with the really basic original "first class" seats. I'm told the FC pax, fresh from the cubicles, were highly unimpressed, as I suspect we'd all be.