From: George Sherwood 

On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:16:32 +0100, Adam wrote:


>
> Nah they said all this wrt the 747.
>
> In fact they also said it wrt to 707 as it needed such long runways & so
> few places had such long runways etc.

IMO, those airplanes in their time were much more revolutionary then the
A380 is now.  The idea and profitability of moving large numbers of people
is much better understood.  I think Airbus over estimated the need. Time
will tell.

George

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