[Seaplaner]

“The A380 is between 10% and 16% per seat heavier than the 747-8...The net result of these efficiencies is that the 747-8I’s operating costs are 22% lower than the A380’s per trip and 6% lower per seat, says Baseler [of Boeing].

As I recall, Boeing has an reputation of not exaggerating these types of comparisons. Does it seem to anyone else, however, that Airbus has been a little "cute" with the facts about such things as the final mass* of its A380-oppotamus?

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*I use the term "mass" as all aircraft weigh nothing at the point of takeoff.

[phantomworker]

*I use the term "mass" as all aircraft weigh nothing at the point of takeoff.

Interesting. I didn't know that.