Had the A380 been a Boeing product, BA would have been up at the head of the queue.
More anti BA prejudice. BA has a vast fleet of Airbuses.
I was in the room when Rod Eddington was asked. "Are we going to buy the A380". His answer was that BA were not going to be test pilots for a brand new product. He went on to comment that during his time at Cathay the introduction of another brand new product had been fraught with immense problems. And that he had no desire to revisit that experience. He finished by saying that if the Customer liked the A380, then BA would buy them.
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