Originally Posted by
T-Vasis
Actually, Airbus and Boeing do care about this Qantas deal very much, as it will be a proving ground for the equipment, and if successful - will trigger mass global airline orders since most of all of the airlines would be pleased with a super long-haul aeroplane to open up new markets, in particular with European and US airlines operating to / from Australia via many new points that are not currently served - securing monopolies (initially), and between other continents. This is a good test case before they take the financial gamble with unproven technology...
So pretty much the only city pairs this will benefit is SYD-JFK and SYD-LHR.
Considering you can get to pretty much every other major city on earth from JFK and LHR already, I dont see where these new markets are.
You can already go JFK to Seoul, Narita, Bangkok, Singapore and Dehli etc.
LHR to all the same cities already possible.
So unless you can sell tickets cheaper than the 20+ airlines already doing 1 stop flights to LHR and JFK from SYD you dont have a business case.