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Old Apr 3, 2013 | 2:25 pm
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Originally Posted by peterrabbit
Does seem an odd choice as a 747 replacement, if the 787-9 has F it's not going to have much more than 35 J seats too and a mid-J 747 has many more than that.

I think they'll need more than 12 380s before the 747s are gone.
Agreed. the 787-9 is 63m long as opposed to the 787-8 at 57m according to Boeing. 6m isn't a lot of space if you add an F cabin to add much else - maybe 1 extra row of J but that would be it. Even if you had a 2 row F with 8 seats still not that much space.....

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