WHBM,
Airbus has a problem though if they can't manufacture the aircraft for a price that the market will bear, and the only way to reduce the price in a large manufacturing operation is to reduce the head count...
So They can get the work done, and have an aircraft that costs about a billion dollars a copy... Wonder how many they will sell?
There may be a lot of that going on here as well...
Cheers
Wino