"Kingfish" wrote in message

My God, do we need an airliner with *more* than 800 seats?? That's
reportedly the capacity of the 380 with max density single-class
seating.

Most obvious use for the max density seating would be the Hajj. Best use
for the 380 would be Jakarta-Jeddah. How long til someone [read: Saudi
gov't] leases a few of these for that? 07? 08? Has anyone read whether
the Saudi government is prepping Jeddah for the plane? What about jakarta?
I've flown the 747 in max density config on the Hajj, and I'll tell ya,
that's a lotta damn people! Specially on the return, with the zum-zum
water.