TRANSLATION FROM FRENCH:
Our airplane is horribly overweight, in the aftermath of 9/11 when airlines are actually examining whether or not they really need aircraft rather than just buying them willy nilly, no one is buying our porker, so we must blame the americans.
All of the early orders for the 318 have pretty much been deffered, Flight international has been speculating that the whole program will be canceled.
Cheers
Wino