Inside the echo chamber of home market myopia, Little Napoleon prattles away incessantly. They spend copious amounts of other people's money maintaining a big narrative of BS.
I really can't see Airbus or Boeing reducing the price of their products to suit one airline with a tiny population. Unless Qantas are planning to order other aircraft at the same time, I don't see what bargaining chip that they have here.
When idiots like Joe Aston notice the rubbish and marketing spin with zero product to sell the jig is up.
Buy the aircraft the manufacturers offer or don't.
With development costs for the A380 estimated to exceed USD $9.5 billion the only product a minnow customer like Qantas would be offered is off the shelf.
The whole circus has generated a year of publicity for nothing. No order, no regulatory approval and no science to support it.