And i thought Air France planes were filthy!

I thought concorde had more than 2 customers on its order books,then the oil crisis of 197? hit and Concorde sank faster than the Titanic,but only to be rescued by the state airlines of france and britain ordering 7 each

i think the Maldives has an A300 going between the Maldives and Doha (Qatar)

i seem to remember American Airlines getting a huge rebate from MD over the MD11, because it fell short on the promised range, may be wrong!

There is a lot more to it than flight deck commonality. What about leasing costs, fuel burn, load carrying etc.

Why do so many airlines operate airbus and boeing??????

i only gave that for one example, i know there is alot more to it than one deciding factor. Everybody is so quick to jump down one anothers throat in this forum! 😡

So what we are saying here is in terms a 4 year old can understand:- Both the A340 and the B777 both have good points and bad points, at the end of the day it i believe it comes down to what the airlines want and which particular plane meets there needs (not just talking about price) if you ran an airline that used all airbus products for short haul work,then you wouldnt necisarlily choose the B777 as long haul choice, because of flight deck comanality(sp?) and the extra expense of training and engineering facilities and vice versa if you operated a boeing short haul fleet.

Thats my take on it….ohh and BTW this is my 100th post :o)

On the KLM F100 there seems to be some wrinkling of the skin just aft of the fwd landing gear, or do my glasses need cleaning again?