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Old 16th January 2009, 07:40 AM
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Default All Economy 840 pax A380: Air Austral

Airline Route Updates website (http://airlineroute.blogspot.com/) reports that Air Austral are getting two A380s configured to all economy to seat 840 pax and fly between Paris and St Denis de la Reunion.

Imagine boarding times (even with two aerobridges) and customs for that! Or is customs not required as St Denis de la Reunion is a French territory?
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Old 16th January 2009, 07:42 AM
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Hard to imagine a plane with 840 pax on it, just awesome.
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Old 16th January 2009, 07:49 AM
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Hard to imagine a plane with 840 pax on it, just awesome.
Until one goes down killing everyone on board....

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Old 16th January 2009, 08:40 AM
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Thats true, but who builds a plane in the expectation it will crash?

I suppose if it happens it happens and until then we consider ourselves lucky it hasn't.
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Old 16th January 2009, 10:01 AM
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FWIW I flew a 747-300 for one of the French tour companies (not sure which one now ... AOL ?) and it had all but a few rows at the front set up for economy. I think we carried about 570 people.
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Old 16th January 2009, 10:55 AM
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Sorta like that 747 Domestic config, I think it was 630 economy.
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Old 16th January 2009, 07:54 PM
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Correct me if im wrong, but I think a QF 747 held or holds the record for the most PAX carried during Cylone Tracy?
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Old 16th January 2009, 08:35 PM
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Correct me if im wrong, but I think a QF 747 held or holds the record for the most PAX carried during Cylone Tracy?

was for while, but not anymore

he greatest number of passengers carried by a single commercial airliner is 1,088, by an El Al Boeing 747 during Operation Solomon, which began on May 24, 1991. The purpose of the operation was to evacuate Ethiopian Jews to Israel following the toppling of the Ethiopian government. The figure includes two babies born during the flight.

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Old 17th January 2009, 06:08 AM
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Standing room only on that flight!!! That's amazing.
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Old 17th January 2009, 08:13 AM
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Imagine the queue to use the toilets !

I have heard it's already bad enough.
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