All very well, but when HKG becomes 'slot limited', which I understand will happen in 2015, it's gonna be about size, as it will be the only variable left. Junior FO's and iCadets note; promotion will be 'dead men's shoes'.
The third runway, whenever that is built, will have little effect until the cousins up north open up their airspace and remove the 'glass wall', whenever that may be.
Nowhere else to go except the -380; but wait a minute...haven't our competitors booked up the production slots
...looks like it will be the smaller warmed-over Boeing.
Maybe David Downturn's vision of a 'boutique airline' was prescient after all, as the mainlanders swamp the China routes with A380's out of Guangzhou, Shenzhen etc.