[Catfish]

Airbus is being subsidized? And Bombardier got subsidies?

Boeing received $457 million in federal grants, which are typically non-repayable, between 2000 and 2014. In addition to that, there was a whopping $64 billion in federal loans and loan guarantees.
Additionally, Boeing gets a lot of US 'defense' contracts. Win-win for the better subsidized company.

Then, China.


Regarding the Airbus 380 airliner: It's the wings. The plane is not big enough.
The wings have been designed for a lengthened version of the A380, so not being forced to costly produce several wing types with their different systems, but the bigger version was never built.

Airbus may now pull the plug on UK wing building of the Airbus, but it is more related to the uncertainties of brexit than of quality or production problems, or the 380.