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When you increase the size of an aircraft, you reduce the discomfort associated with weather conditions. If the occupancy rate is good, you also increase fuel e
by reacweb 8y ago
When you increase the size of an aircraft, you reduce the discomfort associated with weather conditions. If the occupancy rate is good, you also increase fuel efficiency. To have good occupancy rate, you need to organize and to have many airports supporting big aircrafts. This is only political and Boeing is a very strong political influencer to harm competition. Like for Concorde, when Boeing fails on technical, they use political tricks.
- akerl_ 8y ago“If the occupancy rate is good, you also increase fuel efficiency” is only true if all else is equal. In this case, it’s not: the hop from 2-engine to 4-engine hurts fuel efficiency and adds to cost/complexity of the aircraft.
- jessriedel 8y agoWhat are the political tricks that Boeing used to discourage Emirates and Qantas from buying Airbus?