Magoodot, as I respondedto Capstqn perhaps I was a bit over the top in putting a balancing and thus not perhaps balanced comment . As for 74 its tqken, me god knows how many miles comfortably on the whole and always with a feeling of complete safety. It is was and remains anaviation icon and an engineering marvel.
I certainly do not want it to disappear from the skies but I do feel the author went a little over the top about European attitudes and the impliction that Airbus has some how had an unfair political advantage PB