Airbus in A380 size revamp

Airbus in A380 size revamp

Airbus is in serious difficulty, despite all the rosy rhetoric from Galois production is still being held up by inefficient production, and delivery’s are slipping further and further behind. Emirates, who have placed their future in the hands of Airbus, can no longer plan that future with any accuracy.
The Company plans to bring the A350 to market sometime around 2015 to compete with Boeing’s 787, if Airbus' history is any indicator, that may never happen.

Airbus has done well with the single aisle market, but has fallen behind Boeing drastically with the rest of their products, the A340 is sliding off the map, rapidly being outsold by Boeing’s 777, the A330 will also succumb to Boeing’s 787’s smaller models with economical composite construction.

The future for the A380 is doubtful, terrible sales have indicated the aircraft is too big for a diminishing market, middle east carriers account for 70% of its sales, no large U.S. carrier has ordered or even considered its use. Some financial analysts have put the loss figure at near seventy five billion dollars, with no hope of ever recovering any of it.

The prospect of Airbus ever offering an extended version is somewhat laughable, they can’t even build the one’s they have orders for.

boring and misleading stories.

Id like to point out that the previous commentator is either a Boeing
employee or has some affiliation to the US aerospace industry. Hes on the payroll of somesort.

Airbus has had its problems like any other large Multi National Engineering company. If you looked at where the Aerospace industry was in Europe 30 years ago and where it is today, then anybody with a small amount of common sense would say that Airbus has been somewhat of a success story. They have nearly an equal share of the > 100 seat commercial a/c market, and a backlog of orders in the billions.

30 yrs ago Boeing had around 80% of the market
McDonnel douglas the remaining 20% So if i was
a businessman, id say that is pretty good goin??

The a380 was a massive engineering project and it may not be profitable for a long time. But i would like to point out that the lifespan of an aircraft
is not 2 yrs its 20-30 yrs.

Its always easy to chastise and criticise anybody or any company in difficult times.

The previous commentator also pointed to terrible sales? Can you remind everyone the number of 747 sales after 2yrs in commercial service? and where the a320 was after the same period?
Both these aeroplane have turned out to be the benchmarks in the aerospace sector.

There are so many baffoons in this business that havent got anything better to do that spread negative publicity. Give Boeing and Airbus credit where credit is due! And get a life.

1st commentator misleading information
put straight:

a330 - 1006 orders, 555 delivered
767 - 724 orders 680 delivered
757 - 1019 orders

a340 - 389 orders, 352 delivered
777 - 1088 orders

a320 family - 6297 orders, 3572 delivered
737 family - 8000 ordered, 5800 delivered.

Terrible sales? You make your own mind up.

Airbus stinks!

See the planes don’t sell, buy American! Buy Boeing!!!! Better made!!!

Boeing Boeing Boeing!

Anything that the French do, they screw it up!