[Skybird]

The main argument against the A380 is not the wings or its production costs, but that it cannot be economically maintained. At least other, smaller aircraft can be operated more economically and cost-efficient. Airbus expected too hugh passenger numbers per flight. Carriers found that these expectations were unrealistic.


Subsidies are bad, and a market distortion aiming at bypassing the need for competitveness. No matter who does them. The best reply to them would be to boycott according products completely, forcing the producer to raise subsidies to 100% of the production costs and needed profit margins - so that he realises its not worth to go this way.



In the past 10 years, in the EU the quota of non-survivable, non-profitable, non-competitve companies has more than tripled from once 5% to now almost 18%. this is a growing burden for the tax payer, for the other parts of the economy, and it means a generla weakening of the whole economy. A foul company must be allowed to go bancrupt instead of keeping this dead zombie corpus moving with subsidies, forever, just not to piss the employees in the next election.



A few get fed. The vast majority must pay the hefty rice. The ration notoriosuly get pushed for the worse. This cannot go well forever, sooner or later it must go the way of the economies in the Warsaw Pact zone.