Why no large planes on intra-European flights?

Sjoerd schrieb:

As far as I know, there are no airlines (or perhaps very few?) that do
intra-European scheduled flights on large planes such as B747, B777, A330 or
A340. On the other hand, in Asia it is very normal that short to medium
distance flights are performed on these larger aircraft. I am not sure about
North and South America, Africa and Australia, but believe that most short
to medium range flights (say: flights shorter than 5 hours) in that region
are also on smaller aircraft.

Why the difference in the aircraft used between continents?

Sjoerd

The charter airlines certainly use larger aircraft for European vacation
destinations. A check on www.airliners.net for Palma de Mallorca and
Alicante comes up with many B767s and A330s, DC-10s, even a few 747s and
777s (Lauda)

devil wrote:

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 22:27:17 +0200, Sjoerd wrote:

As far as I know, there are no airlines (or perhaps very few?) that do
intra-European scheduled flights on large planes such as B747, B777, A330 or
A340. On the other hand, in Asia it is very normal that short to medium
distance flights are performed on these larger aircraft. I am not sure about
North and South America, Africa and Australia, but believe that most short
to medium range flights (say: flights shorter than 5 hours) in that region
are also on smaller aircraft.

Why the difference in the aircraft used between continents?

Trying to provoke JF and the apologists of our favorite White Elephant?


*LOL*

Good one!

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Greg