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Old 28th Apr 2009, 04:43
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Two good reasons, first of all you do not gain any more cargo capacity, secondly,
those additional passengers on the top deck have to put their checked baggage into that same cargo area and you lose even more cargo space.

This, of course is one of the problems with the A380 whose cargo capacity is not that impressive for it's size.
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