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Two main things as I understand it: 1) The variability of traffic leads to jumbos being underutilized, wasting fuel and capital tied up in such oversized plane
by supernova87a 6y ago
Two main things as I understand it:
1) The variability of traffic leads to jumbos being underutilized, wasting fuel and capital tied up in such oversized planes, when it's better to have a 787 in use full time more consistently
2) Airlines got tired of having to maintain 4 engines when they could just have 2...
- bobthepanda 6y agoOther thing is that 787 and A320 can reliably fill up on "thinner" routes, which siphons off people who would otherwise change at a hub airport onto a jumbo, and filling jumbos was already tricky. There is a reason the largest operators of A380s and 747s are the ones with absolutely massive hubs; either a legacy European flag carrier, a Middle Eastern mega-hub airline, or an airline handling large amounts of transfer volume from an out-of-the-way place like Australia.