Originally Posted by
Grumble
You're sourcing Boeing for comparison? That's objectionable. Notice they didn't mention EXIM financing (your tax dollars actively engaged against you), Mil/Industrial sales and criminal behaviors (KC-46 anyone?), or a straight numbers comparison.
Fifi has zeeeeero of the performance problems the Guppy does. Never left a paying pax behind for performance on Fifi or needed a kickstand either.
What I'd really like to see (and no one has ever had) is no dookie dollars numbers from the people in Sears Tower comparison of the Bus vs Guppy.
I'm not UAL and it wasn't a United flight, but I've been denied on a baby bus for weight before. So while it does seem less common on airbuses, it at least does happen.