Boeing has its share of problems and will have many more.
Maybe it is just a coincidence, but this topic might be a good way to take attention away from the A-380's problems: when delivery delays happen, financial penalties are paid to airlines.
Won't European/British taxpayers again be called upon to provide huge sums, as they did years ago for initial research and development, in order to now rescue Airbus? Airbus admitted that it would seek financial bail-out. This was featured yesterday in a newspaper, but we can rest assured that it is all media speculation...
Today: "Delays With Airbus Prompt Emergency Meeting", 'New York Times'. "Paris-Top executives at the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. held an emergency meeting monday to discuss their stumbling Airbus subsidiary...".
"In Berlin, senior German politicians blamed Airbus management for a crisis that has seriously undermined the credibility of one of Europe's biggest and most ambitious industrial projects"
" 'The fish stinks from the head', said Johannes Kahrs, a legislator for the Social Democratic Party and a member of the influential budget committee of the Bundestag, the lower house of Parliament".
Airbus has admitted that it will need financial subsidies, in order to compete.
Maybe Boeing should be allowed to soak up the same social welfare benefits?