A visitor from Germany posted Fri August 2, 2013:They do name their new series with -8 (such as 787-8 or A 350-800, A 380-800) for quite a while now, because the 8 is a lucky number in Asia and since Asia has become a valuable market, they had the idea to sell these a/c??s even better than... i dont quite get the reason though, there are definatley no studies about whether this helps or not... i l