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Originally Posted by Steel_Tomb
How many units has Airbus sold now?
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http://www.airbus.com/odxml/orders_and_deliveries.xls
From 2010 on they will produce 44 A380s per year, at least that is the production capacity they planned until now.
The current order state means nothing positive or negative, it still is the starting phase. the cheap "discounter carriers" will mark a major decison on wether the A380 will be economically succesful or not. If they embark on it in sufficient numbers, the normal airlines cannot afford to ignore the immense passanger capacity of these planes. And no other plane gives you so many passangers transported for your buck. After a trohbled and delayed start, in the olong run there is little reason to be pessimistic, I think. The freighter version is something different and saw many cancellations, due to delays in production. but here, Airbus still can turn out to be the winner, but probably not in the medium time range but only in the long run.