Let's suppose that an airline wants to purchase 10 or 20 Boeing 747-8 Intercontinentals (this should be an average order)... The first question you face is where you can store so many large airplanes? Obviously you cannot sacrifice the surface of football fields without end for the sake of growing passenger numbers...
I think that the best place of an airliner is in the air:
a) the "power plants" don't have this name in vain but in fact they are gas turbines that work in electric power plants nearly non-stop during years,
b) the sky is always clear above the clouds that means there is no rain, no ice, not even too much dust at cruising altitudes - just like in the protection of a hangar,
c) in the air there are no cities, no roads, no corn fields and no forests - there is only space whithout end...
So if an airline could store its Jumbo Jets in the sky that means on long-haul flights of 10 to 15 hours with only 1 or 2 hours between 2 flights spent for preparations of the next flight you had 2 benefits:
a) you could save the costs of hangars and of other storage space and
b) your fleet of Jumbo Jets could achieve a maximum efficiency and capability...
These expensive airliners are not designed for occasional flight events but - just like electric power stations - for working day and night without interruption... In other words: they are designed to fly in the sky...
The Boeing Edge service and supply department is there to help airlines keep their Boeing airplanes as much in the air as possible... Visit: Boeing.com
Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team
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