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Originally posted by wellard:
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Originally posted by Q'alooaith:
they've got to sell about 100 of these things to break even. Or 100 more than they currently have order for.. dunno, either way not a huge number considering..
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Airbus have announced firm orders for 139 of its A380 airliners. intrestingly 17 of these are for the cargo version. One worry they have is that Emirates have orderd 45 of those. That is a big percentage if they should run into trouble then Airbus might loose a lot of sleep.
Intresting too is that not one USA airline has ordered a plane. This could be for two reasons.
1) They are all near bankrupt and do not have the money to introduce a new type of aircraft.
2) Political pressure [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]Actually your item 1 is true. But more importantly they have large US Government loans and don't dare under cut Boeing.