in terms of capacity and efficiencies, the A346 is better than the B747-400ER, but gives the 777-300er a run for the money. the B747-400er has lost its competitive advantage to the A346 and B777-300er. airlines that fly the A340 (4 engine aircraft) instead of the B777 (twin-engine aircraft) probably lack the maintenance competency to maintain an aircraft to ETOPS standards. kr -----Original Message----- From: chuangha [mailto:chuangha@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 9:49 PM To: orders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [orders] Re: OT: even the 340 has lower deck and upper deck? --- In orders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jim" <jiml1126@xxxx> wrote: > http://cms.lufthansa.com/LHeCMS/mediafiles/gif/7/0,4389,229317,00.gif > > Was looking at this Lufthansa's 346 seat map, and I realized that > there's this "Lower deck" on board. > > When did Airbus decided to have this upper and lower deck on the > A346? I thought only Boeing's 772LR/773ER has this feature. Boeing offers the overhead crew rest which is above the passenger cabin. Airbus has always offered the lower-deck crew rest as an option on the A340. Using the lower deck for non-cargo usage is not new. For example, Lockheed offered lower-deck galleys on the L-1011. With respect to the A340-600, it seems Airbus is pushing for more non-cargo usage of the lower deck. IMO, this is an attempt to better match the B777-300ER seating capacity in spite of Airbus' claim that the -600 has a tri-class seating of 380 passengers. Nevertheless, this is accomplished at the expense of lost opportunity for additional cargo revenue. > > P.S. The lower deck WC feature IMO, LH's A340-600 economy-class configuration is pretty awful, with one lavatory on the main deck and five on the lower deck. The one on the main deck would likely to have longer line. Depending on the width of the staircase, accessing the lavatories downstairs at peak time could be very crowded and inconvenient. Andrew Orders includes 750 members. http://surf.to/orders Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/orders/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: orders-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
