From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

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

I think India & China are just coming on line for mass traval.

The US & Western Europe drove air travel & there's less than a
billion of them.


Adam

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