Heathrow Headaches

摘要

During the recent holiday, "Branson buys A3XX" was what the headlines shouted across Europe. The stories all claimed that Richard Bransons Virgin Atlantic Airways order was the final sale needed to start manufacture of this behemoth of a plane. Just imagine, the collective European writers noted breathlessly, planes that will hold 550 people in their first iteration, with later models to hold over 800―almost twice as many passengers as today's largest aircraft.