Originally Posted by
overstress
AFAIK the A380 burns more, but not sure how much that works out per pax. Depends on the load factor I suppose.
It only depends on the load factor if you assume different LFs for each aircraft, which would make the comparison somewhat dubious
. Otherwise, it's purely down to the number of seats.
I'd be extremely surprised if the fuel element of A380's seat-mile costs wasn't lower than for the 747.