Let's not forget the early days of the 747 when the upper deck would have bars, pianos, pubs, etc. It didn't take long for the accountants to remind the marketing people of that old saw, "arses in seats, planes in the air", and before you know it, they crammed the upper deck with seats. If you were lucky, your airline actually bothered to punch out some extra windows up there so you could see where you were headed... Mike Gammon ----- Original Message ----- From: "David J. Wallace" <katana.flyer@telinco.co.uk> To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 6:21 PM Subject: Re: Frequent fliers try to create perfect plane > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > The thing is the A380 is likely to be used on routes with very high load > factors - i.e LHR - SIN etc where the opportunity cost of not cramming the > rows in may be quite high. For that reason alone I don't think we'll ever see > the spas or any of the other nice things. Not for the people at the back > anyway. It's a shame though - I was rather taken with the idea of a hot tub > at 35000 feet hmmmm lots of possibilities. > > David > > On Wednesday 02 Oct 2002 11:26 pm, you wrote: > > katana.flyer@telinco.co.uk writes: > > << Airlines are in it to maximise profit - > > passengers on the whole want the cheapest tickets - that means cramming in > > the most economy rows you can get away with. If you want space you pay the > > premium to sit up front. >> > > I'd love to see the figures on that theory (which is believed by 100% of > > the aircarriers) > > You would think, that flights are average 80%-even 95% full then those last > > 2-3 rows of crowded in seats would be used only occasionally. Wonder if the > > revenue loss would be much if any so have 2-3 less rows and more room for > > the people? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE9nML0KsvwCXwmAPgRAqTuAKCQ5ypPfJQHw9Ztue3eLu0AJ5xvVACfWi6M > kF/QuHhR/N2RzkclU8hcaGM= > =q+6z > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >