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Old Dec 6, 2016 | 8:02 pm
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Originally Posted by airsurfer
That is exactly what I also thought.


Not on the Wikipedia data but on the data provided by Flightaware. The longest A380 flight EK448/9 would have 300 tons / 360m3 of fuel aboard, well beyond the fuel capacity according to Wikipedia. If this were true, then I call this 'guzzly', unless a not-so-small portion of that amount is spare fuel for diversion / emergency landing and it is a speciallly built custom A380 for such flights.
Do you really think Emirates has "a specially built custom A380 for such flights"?

The data you're looking at is incorrect, you said you thought that as well, yet you're drawing a conclusion from it that the A380 is "guzzly"? Bizarre.
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