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If you live anywhere near Heathrow then you will see a lot of A380's. In fact it is hard to imagine there are so few of them given how many go flying overhead.
by Theodores 12y ago
If you live anywhere near Heathrow then you will see a lot of A380's. In fact it is hard to imagine there are so few of them given how many go flying overhead. Heathrow is a busy airport operating at full capacity. The A380 therefore makes complete sense, there is no other way to increase capacity apart from bigger planes.
Hence, from the perspective of anyone living in West London, you have to wonder why airlines would buy anything else. It is all a matter of perspective, very much so. The order books are full for the A380 and it is obvious that there will only ever be a finite need for such a large aircraft. Therefore, if the order books are no longer growing then so what?
Maybe the maths doesn't add up, however, keeping those A380s in the air is going to be pretty good business when it comes to spares and repairs. Again, perspective. Compared to those stupid fighter jet programmes the maths really looks a whole lot more plausible for the A380.
I think that American sentiment towards European planes is easy to figure out. Cheap and dependable planes, yes, high tech wonders (Concorde, A380), no.
- idlewords 12y agoThat's the same attitude we have towards American planes. I wish the sky was dark with SSTs.
- gsnedders 12y ago> Hence, from the perspective of anyone living in West London, you have to wonder why airlines would buy anything else. That assumes that all customers flying into LHR are long-haul customers; BA has a large number of domestic flights from LHR (including some wide-body 767s to EDI/GLA, but mostly narrow-body) and they undoubtedly have an effect on the loading of the A380 flights (if BA decided that the LHR-GLA flights weren't profitable because of the cost of landing slots at LHR, I'd simply fly via somewhere else, hence decreasingly the loading on the A380s).