tonyw
Well-Known Member
Re: Did Boeing \"blow\" it?
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Two - buy larger aircraft to replace all the small ones. If you can cram the same number of folks into five 380s and drop the 200 RJs you've reduced the bottleneck, the landing fees (I know weight comes into play but this is a simplified example) and the number of crew. This is why, in Asia, no one has dropped their 747s (on domestic routes no less) for the "super efficient" RJs. They need seats because a lot of people fly.
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As Lee Corso would say, not so fast, my friend.
You are assuming that the people who are taking advantage of the many flights per day that are available to them because of the RJs will give up that flexibility to get on one flight per day with the A380.
And you're also assuming that all airports that now fly RJs can handle the A380. Now, I know that you're going to say that only podunk little airports can't handle it.
Well, would you consider a small airport called LAX one of these airports?
And you better hope that they don't try to cram all the people onto one A380 instead of many RJs. Why?
What does that do to the demand for pilots?
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Two - buy larger aircraft to replace all the small ones. If you can cram the same number of folks into five 380s and drop the 200 RJs you've reduced the bottleneck, the landing fees (I know weight comes into play but this is a simplified example) and the number of crew. This is why, in Asia, no one has dropped their 747s (on domestic routes no less) for the "super efficient" RJs. They need seats because a lot of people fly.
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As Lee Corso would say, not so fast, my friend.
You are assuming that the people who are taking advantage of the many flights per day that are available to them because of the RJs will give up that flexibility to get on one flight per day with the A380.
And you're also assuming that all airports that now fly RJs can handle the A380. Now, I know that you're going to say that only podunk little airports can't handle it.
Well, would you consider a small airport called LAX one of these airports?
And you better hope that they don't try to cram all the people onto one A380 instead of many RJs. Why?
What does that do to the demand for pilots?