https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47225789
The duel of two design philosophies - A380 versus Dreamliner - is decided. Airbus failed. Expensively so.
While I would never board a flying brick, I was one of those thinling that the big capacity of the Airbus would make it the winner in the long distance flying arena of the Middle to Far East.
Biggest looser: the tax payers. I hate subsidized economy schemes. You cannot plan better than the market does all by itself. I wonder whether Airbus would have dared to try this design if they would not be heavily subsidized.
Beside the A380, it is the A400M that is a burden for Airbus' otherwise quite good yearly numbers. Anothe rone of these prestigious stupid political pet hobbies. I do not believe too strongly in these multi-national production schemes. Don't they say: too many chefs spoil the soup?