It's flippin' hilarious that people continue to discuss the A380 as if it is a viable transportation device. Unless Tim Clark truly has the ability to suspend Newtonian physics (as he patently believes), the object lession is simple:
Have 430 passengers pay a price for a ticket and send them to London on a B777. Make money.
Have 430 passengers pay that same price for a ticket and send them to London on a A380. The problem is that these passengers are also travelling along with 100 tons of unnecessary, crack-ridden aluminium. Who pays for the dead weight?
Looking at the order book for this laughable piece of "engineering" it is easy to see that most airline executives still keep batteries in their calculatiors.
Last edited by Dropp the Pilot; 27th June 2017 at 11:42.
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