Originally Posted by
Confus
Those were and remain excellent diagrams, but on a point of pure pedantry, the A380 will use up far more of its hold space for passenger luggage than the 789, with baggage taking priority over cargo on all BA passenger operations. Therefore the ‘marginally greater’ you refer to won’t be so in practice.
With further pedantry, the choice of ac is on a
given HKG flight. The number of pax will be the same if an A380 or 789 is assigned to that flight and so will the baggage load.