From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   bob  wrote:   
   >John Levine  wrote:   
      
   >>>I don't think there's much of a market for those huge planes at all. One   
   >>>of the new runways at Chicago O'Hare was built to land those things, paid   
   >>>for entirely by taxes and surcharges on airline passengers flying on   
   >>>planes that had no trouble landing on runways sized for the jet age   
   >>>in the 1960s.   
      
   >>You're right that the market for superjumbos, the A380 and B747-8, is   
   >>tiny.  Neither has much of an order backlog, and for the B747 it all   
   >>seems to be freighters, for which it's the only thing that can handle   
   >>the largest items, and flying pleasure palaces for Asian plutocrats.   
      
   >>One size down, though, the B777, B787, and A350 are selling great, and   
   >>both are much bigger than the 1960s 707 and 727.   
      
   >That's why I indicated 200+ sized. That size includes the larger 767   
   >variants as well as 777 and 787, as well as A330, A340 and A350, in   
   >addition to the 747 and A380.   
      
   Pardon me. I misread that as a much larger aircraft. The Airbus   
   brochure sez the A380 can seat 850 people in comfort. I'll go   
   right out and buy one.   
      
   This page has a Google map of where you can land one:   
   http://www.airbus.com/aircraftfamilies/passengeraircraft/a380fam   
   ly/a380airportcompatibility/   
      
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