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The A380 will last quite a while on long-haul routes with lots of passengers between busy airports. There's no other plane that allows cramming 500+ passengers
by kijin 8y ago
The A380 will last quite a while on long-haul routes with lots of passengers between busy airports. There's no other plane that allows cramming 500+ passengers into the same departure slot, and places like LAX and LHR don't have many departure slots to spare.
Emirates makes heavy use of the A380 because they are geographically forced to operate on a hub-n-spoke model. The same is true for other heavy A380 users such as Qantas, Singapore, and Korean Air. All of them fly primarily out of a small number of hubs. They simply can't do point-to-point. There are also lots of A380's flying between major cities across the Pacific, such as LAX and Seoul, Honolulu and Tokyo, etc. where there's enough demand to fill an A380 every day.
- yitchelle 8y agoAre the really long haul flights (17+ hrs) going to be using A380? I could see more flights on these routes to increase capacity.
- kijin 8y agoLast time I checked, some airlines did use the A380 for 17-hour flights such as Dallas-Sydney and Dubai-Auckland. But other aircraft like B777-200LR, B787-9, A340 and A350 also have a similar (or even greater) range, so it will be more economical to use these smaller twinjets unless there's a lot of demand. Even if there is enough demand, it might make more business sense to offer four flights a week instead of two.