> > A380 burns around 4,500 gallons of jet fuel an hour (on average-ish) so that's about $25,000/hour to operate in fuel alone.
Let's say you are a rich individual wanting to use this as a private jet:
1) Given that the plane will always fly empty compared to its capacity you could start by removing 2 engines and selling them to recoup some of the cost, or even all 4 of them and install 2 mid power engines .
2) Then you could just refuel in places where oil is cheap or heavily subsidised, say UAE or Saudi.
3) You could completely ignore the maintanence schedule and just jump out of it in your parachute if things go wrong
4) You could use it as a personal branding machine to propel your image as an anti-woke/pro-global-warming individual.
Considering all the above there might be somebody who could find it palatable, but they'd only be able to fly over oceans and within Africa
Let's say you are a rich individual wanting to use this as a private jet:
1) Given that the plane will always fly empty compared to its capacity you could start by removing 2 engines and selling them to recoup some of the cost, or even all 4 of them and install 2 mid power engines .
2) Then you could just refuel in places where oil is cheap or heavily subsidised, say UAE or Saudi.
3) You could completely ignore the maintanence schedule and just jump out of it in your parachute if things go wrong
4) You could use it as a personal branding machine to propel your image as an anti-woke/pro-global-warming individual.
Considering all the above there might be somebody who could find it palatable, but they'd only be able to fly over oceans and within Africa