Old 11-08-2006, 07:07 AM
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FXDX
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The limiting factor to international growth is the number of slots we can get into China. The A380 maximized the return on each of those slots by bringing more freight on each of those trips. Otherwise I don't think it would have been worth all the dollars we were pouring into constuction projects to support the thing. With the 777 only able to carry about half the weight Mr. Smith will have to double his efforts in Washington and beyond to get more slots into China. We're getting more slots and we need lift to fill them, now we will have to get more for those extra 5 aircraft to fill so we can continue to meet the demand in China. I still think that the 380 would have been better to maximze the lift per slot and that is why we went in that direction. I don't think it was a shrewd move to get 777s on the cheap.
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