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Old 10-14-2021 | 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by ZeroTT

My personal favorite wildcard scenario is massive domestic widebody deployment to support upgauging the entire operation.
That's what airbus expected when they developed the great white elephant. Turns out frequency works better, since pax prefer that to standing in line for an hour to board a cattle-car that's departing at an inconvenient time.

Also current widebodies are optimized for long-haul cruise so they are inefficient for shorter flights.

If traffic congestion got to the point where slot limits prevented more frequency the you might see widebody's optimized for short-haul.
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