Four million parts, 30 countries: How an Airbus A380 comes together (2018)

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Re: Four million parts, 30 countries: How an Airbus A380 comes together (2018)

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Post by kortilla » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 8:58 AM UTC

throwaway_pdp09 wrote: post #51

hadrien01 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

'Emirates A380 Shower Spa': https://www.emirates.com/english/experience/our-fleet/a380/ First class passengers get 30 minutes, including 5 minutes of running water. You can see videos of it on YouTube.

Don't planes burn enough fossil fuels without carting around a few extra tons of water quite unnecessarily. Market efficiency, yeah right.

First, your napkin math is shit. They aren’t carrying 6000 pounds of water for the 14 first class seats to get 5 minute showers.

Second, the water they use per person weighs less than the weight of the extra passengers that could be fitted in if the arrangement wasn’t first class cabins but was instead economy. First class passengers are where all of the margin is.

Finally, you don’t seem to understand what “market efficiency” means because it has nothing to do with this.

Re: Four million parts, 30 countries: How an Airbus A380 comes together (2018)

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Post by throwaway_pdp09 » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 1:40 PM UTC

kortilla wrote: post #71

throwaway_pdp09 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't planes burn enough fossil fuels without carting around a few extra tons of water quite unnecessarily. Market efficiency, yeah right.

First, your napkin math is shit. They aren’t carrying 6000 pounds of water for the 14 first class seats to get 5 minute showers. Second, the water they use per person weighs less than the weight of the extra passengers that could be fitted in if the arrangement wasn’t first class cabins but was instead economy. First class passengers are where all of the margin is. Finally, you don’t seem to understand what “market e…

You're right https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/11132/how-much-... it's much less (350 KG). Elsewhere they do say the showers are marble and mirror. So extra weight. I assumed without checking there would be lots of first class passengers, got it wrong.

> you don’t seem to understand what “market efficiency” means

If the fossil fuels were costed appropriately, there'd likely be no flying, certainly nothing like this. So its mispriced, is what I mean.

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