That's the point being made. These are enormously expensive for something conceptually quite simple. A large part of that is probably the sheer size of the tr

That's the point being made. These are enormously expensive for something conceptually quite simple. A large part of that is probably the sheer size of the triple E. The original 747 is less than a meter longer than the width of the ship. And if you could squeeze the 747 in there (cut off a bit of the nose perhaps) you could fit more than 5 of them wingtip-to-wingtip in the length of the ship.