OTOH, I took the A380 from SF to France last year and thought it was the quietest, most comfortable plane I'd been on.
Hopefully the same tech advances that hit that plane hit the smaller ones too. That was the first flight where my noise canceling headphones actually seemed somewhat superfluous.
Well add drunken British tourists flying to Sidney via HK and the less you have of them the better :)
All new aircraft has quite quiet engines overall (and i use active noise canceling headphones anyhow), that said having half the people onboard helps it quite a bit, If you fly 1st class i don't think it would matter, and the 380 has probably the best 1st class offerings out there but for anything below that i rather have less people around me :)
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OTOH, I took the A380 from SF to France last year and thought it was the quietest, most comfortable plane I'd been on.
Hopefully the same tech advances that hit that plane hit the smaller ones too. That was the first flight where my noise canceling headphones actually seemed somewhat superfluous.
Well add drunken British tourists flying to Sidney via HK and the less you have of them the better :)
All new aircraft has quite quiet engines overall (and i use active noise canceling headphones anyhow), that said having half the people onboard helps it quite a bit, If you fly 1st class i don't think it would matter, and the 380 has probably the best 1st class offerings out there but for anything below that i rather have less people around me :)