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Old 23rd Jul 2016, 03:35
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glofish
 
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Guys, i give you that. The ride (and the bar) are great on the 380.

I just shiver if i read numbers like 33% for a 77X to improve to beat a 380! In aviation even 1% improvement is an engineers nightmare to achieve, so please stay out of dreamland!

As for the cabin. Sure enough the 380 beats the T7. But simply take the average FL of a 380 ULR flight (rough guess 380) and the one of a T7 (some 340) and the 4000ft difference pretty much eats up the psi difference.

Look, the 380 is great, as was the Concorde or for that matter the deLorean. But in the tough business environment only profits count and the sold units tell a story!
As it seems, now even rumoured cancelations from the biggest operator are threatening.
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