Wino,
I've got a book you need to read...."Concord[e] and the Americans". Send me your boardmail address and you can have it.
Your eyes will be opened wide if you read it! The facts will speak for themselves.
However if I was Boeing, I'd be trying to divert all the attention I could AWAY from the FACT that I was developing a modified heavy lift B777 to compete with any possible A380. Hence the Sonic Cruiser (why would you name an aeroplane after a drive in?)
Let Airbus do all the market surveys they want. Boeing can match anything Airbus builds, providing of course Southwest isn't the launch customer!
Cheers,dd.
(how come one only spots spelling mistakes AFTER one's posted?).
[ 03 August 2001: Message edited by: dallas dude ]