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The irony being that because air traffic keeps increasing and airport capacity doesn't (in term of runways), those cancelled jumbo jets (B747, A380) will be nee
by cm2187 4y ago
The irony being that because air traffic keeps increasing and airport capacity doesn't (in term of runways), those cancelled jumbo jets (B747, A380) will be needed again in a few years.
- rob74 4y agoThat's what Airbus thought too when they gave the A380 the go-ahead. Turns out they were wrong - the airlines moved towards a system with more direct flights and less "hub and spoke" connections, which makes it difficult to fill the largest widebodies. Instead they need more but smaller widebodies for the direct connections.
- cm2187 4y agoUnderstood. But again as traffic increases, those direct flights will themselves become a bottleneck, and there are so many fights you can run through a runway (with most major airports already at full capacity pre-covid). So at one point those planes will need to be bigger.