Before some idiot savant mathemetician corrects me - the full config I was referring to is 317. However now that the window dressing is corrected, the original picture is still correct.
The original question that was asked, mistakenly took a 2 class config 747 and compared it to the full premium A380 and wondered why the A380 only had a small increase in the pax load. It was inadvertently comparing two unlike situations.
Of course if we really want to get picky, we could refer to the passenger count on a 747 that QF set by carrying over 600 on a couple of trips in early 1975, but then that was somewhat "special"... and wouldn't add anything.
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