Come fly the bloated skies

Just been reading about the Airbus A380 plane, and how it's going to change air travel and all that. And, I must admit, when you read stuff like this, it's pretty impressive, with all the talk of what they're going to put in the extra space. It's just when you read this that your view changes:

However, Airbus said some Japanese airlines planned to fill the planes with economy class seats, fitting 800 passengers on board. A proposed "stretched" version would accommodate 900 seats.

How long before 'some Japanese airlines' becomes 'pretty much every airline', do you think?

Not that it's necessarily a bad thing, as one would hope that the cost of flying on an A380 with 8-900 passengers onboard would be significantly cheaper than flying on a current in service aircraft. It may even be that there'll be significant variation between airlines' configurations on the planes and that'll be part of their competition - pay less, and be squuezed in with 800 others on SuperEconoEasyJet or pay more and have extra facilities to pass the time on Virgin, Emirates and the like.

However, the official Airbus website for the A380 says I don't have the right version of Flash so I can't view it. Well, looks like I won't be buying one for myself if they're not interested in customers with less features on their browsers.