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The Friendly Skies

If you have a lot of friends, that is.

The WSJ had a look at the A380 at the Paris Air Show. While the geeks are all excited about the massive super-jumbo finally taking flight, the WSJ reporter looked at it from a more prosaic view, namely that of a world-weary business traveler. From that particular viewpoint, the cavernous main cabin doesn't exactly promise first-class luxury.

To me, it looked like long lines.

Putting up with the cattle-car treatment is all well-and-good when it's an hour flight in a 150-person 737. Not so promising when it's a 12-hour trans-Pacfic marathon. Still, would be kinda cool to fly in the big plane. Once anyway, if we're talking economy.