Originally Posted by
chris1922Mk2
Why doesn't BA serve JFK with an A380, as other airlines do ? Does it not make sense as such a popular route ? Or does BA prefer frequency over many passengers in fewer flights. It's clearly not a distance thing, what with BOS being such a relatively short flight time.
JFK-LHR is ideally suited to 4/5x A380s a night
LHR-JFK is ideally suited to 14x B788s every hour from 6am to 8pm
If Airplanes were made of lego/duplo and combinable... the answer is obvious. Given they aren't, BA/AA opt for having flights every ~90 minutes LHR-JFK then having many smaller planes flying JFK-LHR every 10-20 minutes at peak times. By contrast, AF serve the (much smaller) PAR-NYC market with a few A380s/77Ws a day