I work for Boeing. Which is busy beating Airbus' butt off because Airbus decided that building a giant whale was better than smaller, faster and more efficient airplanes. (Caused the loss of a few of their senior management, too.) Mind you, no US company has agreed to take that behemoth and the freight companies canceled their contracts instead of being caught short-handed for aircraft.
LAX and Kennedy are likely going to be the only two places you'll see that plane in, as no other airport wants to spend a few tens of millions having to build the infrastructure to host one of those planes. New gates, reinforced concrete runways and taxiways... put that thing down at Denver International and the landing gear will shear off from getting stuck two feet down in the asphalt.
It may be an engineering feat, but I don't see it making the sales it wants to make, or passengers wanting to ride in a plane that's got more in common with an ocean liner than a sleek aircraft.
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Date: 2007-03-21 12:10 am (UTC)"If it ain't Boeing, I'm NOT going!"
I work for Boeing. Which is busy beating Airbus' butt off because Airbus decided that building a giant whale was better than smaller, faster and more efficient airplanes. (Caused the loss of a few of their senior management, too.) Mind you, no US company has agreed to take that behemoth and the freight companies canceled their contracts instead of being caught short-handed for aircraft.
LAX and Kennedy are likely going to be the only two places you'll see that plane in, as no other airport wants to spend a few tens of millions having to build the infrastructure to host one of those planes. New gates, reinforced concrete runways and taxiways... put that thing down at Denver International and the landing gear will shear off from getting stuck two feet down in the asphalt.
It may be an engineering feat, but I don't see it making the sales it wants to make, or passengers wanting to ride in a plane that's got more in common with an ocean liner than a sleek aircraft.