As usual, Airbus/Euro phobia seems to shape the argument of some.
It does seem odd to me - while Boeing is trying to sell the 748i, and potential customers want it bigger at the expense of range - to use questionable historic data to argue what operators want in the future.
I would appear to me, while Boeing continously seems to up their estimates for the number of Very Large Aircraft needed, that Airbus is ahead in that game, and are not the one who have changed their tune.