I think you are going to find it ramps up pretty quickly in the next 3 to 5 weeks, nationwide.

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Name one aircraft that wasn't behind schedule and over budget. We'll wait while you do this.

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they said that about the 747 and the C5, as well as the AN124 and the 777. Yet the 380 came to be, the 777 is still being produced, and the 787 came to be as well. Sorry - but this not the end of supersized aircraft. There will be another double decker, or another super-widebody, or a longer one in our lifetimes.

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I've watched the Lufthansa 380 come in and out of KMIA so many times and park at their gate from a balcony across the lagoon from the airport it would make your props spin. Easy peasy. In, out, no issue, very smooth and quick. They park it right in the middle of their intl terminal too, and at the east end of the runway. It's all on the ability of the ground crew to manage it. Not at all the aircraft's fault.

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really? turn on the news. 23 states are ramping up to normal operations. states like WI just had a supreme court ruling flagging the Governor's attempt to extend the stay-at-home order as unconstitutional. Life is going to start getting back to normal sooner or later.

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This is an incredibly short-sighted move. This lull in global travel is going to be ramping back up very quickly - and right up until just before the outbreak, international travel was at it's peak in history. Killing off the 380 will whack their fleet in half - and if that happens then the airline is done as a whole. They still haven't even taken delivery of their final 380s yet. Something isn't adding up here. I have never understood why so many airlines are going for smaller planes with more frequent trips over the past 20 years. Both domestic and international. That is terribly inefficient and causes massive amounts of congestion both in the air and on the ground. Larger aircraft with more infrequent flights are more efficient, more profitable and less congesting all the way around. EA needs to expand it's international destination map - and change them up to be able to operate between different countries - not just to/from their own. This will keep those aircraft fu

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@Robert Cowling Why don't you ask the C-5 Galaxy? :)

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pix of them sitting on the tarmac at KSAW (former KI Sawyer AFB). This is where all the non-alert B-52s and KC-135s were parked back in the day. There haven't been this many tails parked on the ramp since 1994. https://robak.net/images/aircraft/civ/envoy_at_ksaw.jpg

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Of course they did. Most have them have been sitting on the tarmac at their servicing facility here at KSAW (not designated as MQT, as reported in the story). During their time there - they were fully serviced and cleaned. https://robak.net/images/aircraft/civ/envoy_at_ksaw.jpg

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The event will bring in ticket revenues. This isn't even a question. Look around your towns in your cities people are practically forcing things to get back to normal already. If you build it they will come. planning and organizing for this event actually starts just a few weeks after the last one ends. A lot of this could have and should have continued even at people's homes despite the outbreak.

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