It must be the Heineken. :) Let us not forget that the airlines pay landing fees by the weight of the aircraft. Also, airlines you mentioned carry 100-150 pax at a plane load and they restrict their services to 3-4 flights a day. Even with those numbers they will be paying less to the airport authority compared to the one giant A380 carrying 700 pax. :) BAHA Fan of flying villages :P -----Original Message----- From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of B787300@xxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 8:22 PM To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: AIRLINE Digest - 28 Nov 2003 to 29 Nov 2003 (#2003-196) But the improvements needed will run in the hundreds of millions of dollars for most airports and even after spending huge sums there will be restrictions on other large aircraft taxiing or using runways adjacent to the big beast. Why should other airlines, particularly the narrowbody operators like Southwest, AirTran, JetBlue and Spirit, have to pay increased airport fees for all these required modifications and restrictions to benefit a few other carriers with minimum operations daily? All of the airlines will pass their increased fees on to the flying public so we'll all end up paying for a stupid decision to build an aircraft too large to operate safely at most airports. Jose Prize Fan of Virgin but they and other A380 buyers should pay 50% of the airport construction costs In a message dated 11/30/2003 7:30:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, katana.flyer@xxxxxxxxxx writes: > Subj: Re: AIRLINE Digest - 28 Nov 2003 to 29 Nov 2003 (#2003-196) > Date: 11/30/2003 7:30:43 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: <A HREF="mailto:katana.flyer@xxxxxxxxxx";>katana.flyer@xxxxxxxxxx</A> > Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:katana.flyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";>katana.flyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx</A> > To: <A HREF="mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</A> > Sent from the Internet > > Well airports need traffic to stay in business. I'm suprised LAX isn't > making plans becasue quite a few carriers using the airport have the A380 on order > and it's surely in the airports interests to have as many passengers per > plane as possible coming thorough (more revenue per movement). > > Regards, > > David > > On Sunday 30 November 2003 05:33, Herman R. Silbiger wrote: > >They just should ask Branson to pay for the improvements he wants. In > >any case I don't understand why airport authorities are forced to > >accommodate any plane than wants to come in. It might actually be a good > >idea if no US airport could take the A380, since no US airline has any > >on order. > > > >Herman > > >