We can only hope that there will be a third player in the industry.
Bombardier and Embraer (sp?) are slowly rolling out larger and larger aircraft. Each one has a plane that is approaching the size of the smallest Airbus and Boeing. As new designs they may well be better aircraft too (from what I've read in Air International). I don't think that Boeing will survive too long with Airbus producing larger aircraft on one side and Bombardier and Embraer producing smaller ones on the other, unless they start getting creative again. They've done it before (707 and 747), now they just need to do it again.
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