Welcome to the Victor Meldrew thread...
Will you lot get a life please, and celebrate something really rather special here??
Shows like this have been a feature of this sort of launch forever. They fill in time whilst the assorted bigwigs are escorted to their seats, when they can be torn away from the press.
As for the coverage - for those of us who do speak foreign languages, please can they use subtitles, rather than the amateurish translation that was used today?? So we can get a real translation ourselves of what was actually said.... the guy translating the German on Euronews was hopeless....
As for Sky - never heard such negativity - you guys would have enjoyed it. One person called the A380 the Titanic. Nice, guys. Do you want to run us down all the time, or are you just happy to hear your own voice even when it is talking defeatist drivel?
The applause was NOT muted - that is one huge mother of a building. You would have a job making any noise in there sound amazing.
Now guys - say something nice about this topic, and positive, or go and run along and see how your Boeing shares are doing.
Shame on you all.