Originally Posted by
JABDIP
Dot # 1:
The new 747-8 Intercontinental, sporting a new red, white, and orange livery, is roughly 18 feet longer than its predecessor, the 747-400, and its wingspan stretches more than 224 feet. It’s scheduled to make its first flight in March, according to
The Wall Street Journal.
It is Boeing’s largest-ever passenger jet, carrying about 467 passengers, fewer than the usual 525 on the Airbus A380.
Dot # 2:
In its industry consensus forecast IATA projected there will be 3.3 billion air travelers by 2014 — 800 million more than in 2009. China will be the biggest contributor of new travelers. Some 45% of all new airline passengers will travel on Asia-Pacific routes, mostly associated with China, the report said.
Right off DeltaNet. Hope management can see the way to reading there own stuff and connect the dots.
Here is the dot connecting... Korean Air (already ordered it), KLM, Air France and China Southern all order 748s and fly them to LAX and JFK. If not them then China Airlines and Saudi Arabian airlines joining Skyteam in 2012 and possibly Jet Airways or Malaysian Airlines if they join. You then as a fellow skyteam member feed those jets, promise to never infringe and get your cut without ever having to buy one.
Works even better with the more popular cargo version of the 748. There is no money in cargo...
if we do it. Seems fine if everyone else does it for us? There's a boat load of cash to be made in counter-to-counter though unless it's someones skis that were going SLC-ATL and instead went to China and back on a 777. No lie.