[So Cal Rocket]

840 passengers???

They must start boarding that thing 1 1/2 hours before the flight.

How would you like to be at the luggage claim with 839 other passengers looking for your bags?

How would you like having to rush to make a connection and being in the last row in this monster?

[Bogey78O]

Seems like carriers will need to change their operation. Rather than having a daily flght looks like they'd have to switch to bi-weekly.

[jdm]

"How would you like to be at the luggage claim with 839 other passengers looking for your bags?"

yeah, like this!

(over the intercom)

"The carousel will begin moving shortly. We thank you for your patience."

3 hours later...

[ops33]

For most of my adult life I have worked at airports, AFB bases and in aviation. I was both a firefighter and an air traffic controller in the USAF and for the past 12 years I have worked at airport operations at a medium size hub airport. The problems an aircraft of this size will bring are enormous. Getting your baggage is just one. There will be restrictions on which airports this aircraft can use because of its weight and wing spread. At airports it can use, there will be restrictions on taxiways and runways it can use because it will not have sufficient wing tip clearance from other aircraft. Because of its overall size, it will only be able to use certain gates and jet bridges. If the Europeans could not make Concorde work with its great advantage in speed and flying time, how will an aircraft that simply carries more passengers be profitable.