Originally Posted by SEA_Tigger
One should also know that most A380s going into service will be outfitted for ~470 seats, not 555, to say nothing of 850. So most A380s will be adding around 100 more seats then the 744 they replace. This should result in much less impact on existing facilities.
Quite. A lot of the fear over the unloading and loading times and the passenger flows through the terminals is just negative PR aimed at intimidating people from flying on it.