From: ahk@chinet.com

bob  wrote:
>John Levine  wrote:

>>>I don't think there's much of a market for those huge planes at all. One
>>>of the new runways at Chicago O'Hare was built to land those things, paid
>>>for entirely by taxes and surcharges on airline passengers flying on
>>>planes that had no trouble landing on runways sized for the jet age
>>>in the 1960s.

>>You're right that the market for superjumbos, the A380 and B747-8, is
>>tiny.  Neither has much of an order backlog, and for the B747 it all
>>seems to be freighters, for which it's the only thing that can handle
>>the largest items, and flying pleasure palaces for Asian plutocrats.

>>One size down, though, the B777, B787, and A350 are selling great, and
>>both are much bigger than the 1960s 707 and 727.

>That's why I indicated 200+ sized. That size includes the larger 767
>variants as well as 777 and 787, as well as A330, A340 and A350, in
>addition to the 747 and A380.

Pardon me. I misread that as a much larger aircraft. The Airbus
brochure sez the A380 can seat 850 people in comfort. I'll go
right out and buy one.

This page has a Google map of where you can land one:
http://www.airbus.com/aircraftfamilies/passengeraircraft/a380fam
ly/a380airportcompatibility/

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