Yes the madness of high capacity ‘cattle truck’ configurations
….. The A380 can of course hold up to 850 passengers, has anybody actually done that yet? 565ish seems to be the common configuration as far as I’ve read. I sit to be corrected on that.
Imagine 850 pairs of sweaty feet on a long haul! It will smell like a maggot factory…..
Hi PeeDee
In fact this URL talks of 656 to 960 pax – ‘cattle truck style’ http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/airbus_a380.pl
“Future variants may include an A380-900 stretch seating about 656 passengers (or up to 960 passengers in an all economy configuration)”
There was some outfit in the ME region that showed interest in 3 of the highest capacity version. It appeared to be possibly providing a solution for shifting ‘slave’ labour to points of need for heavy manual labour and for possibly periods within temporary visa regulations (or until the poor souls died). I guess a desert airstrip with a tarmac runway but no terminal buildings – none to be seen – why bother in such situations of exploitation, a large marquee would do. In fact at the time it was a configuration of ‘lean to’ or ‘standing seats’ (of MO’L dreams and Chinese fame). The greed that arises around the word ‘globalisation’.
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