We are a PASSENGER airline.
No, we are not. We are a COMMERCIAL Airline that will carry anything we are paid to. That's why we have freighter AND Passenger Aircraft, and carry freight on passenger flights where possible.
If you fill it up those 160 More pax (especially in first and business) class will more than offset the extra fuel cost.
IF those first and Business pax are paying full fare- most aren't.
Hw much extra fuel does a 380 burn to LHR than the 777? Say it is 60 tonnes more - at roughly 1000 dollars/tonne that would be a fuel cost of say 60K. 160 more pax should yield at least double that figure.
MINUS the revenue from the freight we can't carry.
It is like saying( according to your flawed logic) well- the A330 burns less fuel than a 777 (and costs less per Aircraft to lease) therefore lets send 2 330s to LHR instead of a 777.
The statement was that the 777 uses less fuel per KG of payload. It does so, more than the A380 OR the A330.
Face it - The Pax moan once they go on a 330 having travelled on a 777 and the pax moan when they have to travel on a 777 having been on a 380. And that is a fact, because I have spoken to hundreds of pax over the years when flying on the 380 to Sydney and they told me just that.
True. But if us costs us money to provide them with this nice ride, it was hardly worth it, was it?
So DROP et al - Pull your ostrich like heads out of the sand and wake up.
As the most one-eyed, one trick pony on the sight, that DRIPS irony!!