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Old 26th May 2012, 15:10
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donpizmeov
 
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Glofish,
At least you are honest. But as you don't know what the promised specs were, you can't really argue its under performing.

Your argument re yeild of 380 vs 777 is also flawed. What amount of available zero fuel weight is required to be filled for the 777 to make a profit? Is this hampered when it needs to be restricted to carry extra fuel on longer sectors? You and I do not have the facts required to work this one out. But Timbo did state that EK was losing $US20mil per month due to the Boeing taking 380 sectors while the wing gets sorted. So maybe the fleet planning department have the mix right.

You can argue that the whole wing debacle is being extremely poorly handled by Airbus. And on this one you would be right.

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