"Peter" wrote

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.

That is really twisted thinking. Normally, in a car, one of the passengers
is posing as the (pilot)driver. Therefore, airbus loses. Airbus - two
people that went somewhere, only because they had to, vs car - no person
went somewhere they did not have to.

Still, this is all meaningless, anyway. Not many diesel cars can drive
from New York to England.
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Jim in NC