I was at Toulouse to report on the "opening". The facts are that the Le Bourget organisers and Airbus marketeers would dearly love the A380 to be there, and preferably to be in the flying display - for obvious reasons.
The Airbus people who actually build the beast are saying "fine.....but..." depends how the schedule is going and what the impact on flight-test would be.
A personal bet: unless the programme has gone badly pear-shaped it'll be there. So will I
