Peter wrote:

In article , alexy says...
Peter wrote:

In article , Larry Dighera
says...
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:58:54 +1100, Peter wrote in
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If you look at the number of passengers, then the A380 is vastly more
efficient, because unless a car carries hundreds of passengers, you are
going to have hundreds of drivers and comparatively few passengers
compared to two pilots and hundreds passengers on the Airbus.

More efficient in fuel-per-passenger-mile? Doubtful.

The A380 doesn't need 110 pilots to carry 440 passengers. Huge manpower
savings.

True, but it does need more pilots than 110 passenger cars do.

How do you work that out? Two pilots versus 110 drivers - the plane
clearly has the edge in manpower efficiency.

Easy. If 550 people need to get somewhere, the odds are minuscule that
any of them are qualified to fly the 380, so they almost certainly
will be required to hire a crew (not just pilots). The probability
that at least 110 of them are qualified to drive a car is huge, so
they will not likely have to hire anyone to make their trip by auto.
And they certainly won't have to hire any pilots!

Did you notice the G on my original post? No one is taking this
seriously. One would have to factor in the time taken by all of the
passengers to travel by car versus plane, which would yield a huge
advantage to air travel.
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