"Kingfish" wrote in message
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On Oct 15, 2:44 pm, xyzzy wrote:
On Oct 15, 9:55 am, Kingfish wrote:

I read about Singapore Airlines taking delivery (finally) of its first
A380. The article said the plane was configured with 471 seats, which
I found odd seeing as the plane's 550-pax capacity has been pitched by
Airbus since day one (never mind the 800-pax max density seating aka
cattle truck) I realize every airline will configure the plane to fit
their own needs, but that sounds like a big drop in seat count. Makes
me wonder why they didn't just buy more 747-400s.

It's a bait and switch. They'll launch the bird with lots of room and
hype to match, then after it gets a reputation as comfortable plane to
fly, they'll quietly add seats until it's closer to th 550 number than
471.

*******s...

One of the biggest growth areas in Europe are flights to the US where the
configuration is all business class i.e. 100 seats in a 767 at well under
normal business class prices.

http://www.flysilverjet.com/?campaign=811

People are a bit fed up with cattle class. Sure it suits some but I have no
sympathy with a 6'6" 250lb guy whinging about there being no room when he
has only paid $200 for a transatlantic ticket.