Airbus has been for some time a self sustaining entity. Any threat of dissolution is pure bravado. German workers and their government have good reason to be highly upset nonetheless considering the job cuts aimed their way.
Had it not been for missteps made by executives of both EADS and Airbus -regarding design software for the grande dame A380, both Airbus and the parent would not be in the profit warning situation they are in now. Add to this the limited types (1) of marketable (and highly profitable) aircraft in the mid-size area and we can easily see a pattern of corporate blunder of no small consequence.
Power8 is not going down too well with German workers because they would be unfairly penalised for management errors in judgment. A 'report' was recently leaked claiming German factory inefficiencies.
What sort of metric are they using to come up with that dubious statistic when compared to French facilities?
It would be a serious injustice to blame German engineers and punish line employees for the now obvious missteps of corporate governance. Should the French push forward with such a farcical idea of reality, Airbus will indeed die.
Reality should find the German government with an upper hand in all of this.
Then again perhaps the EU populus is as taken with ITN/CNN/UPI - itis (BS) as the rest of the kool-aid imbibing 'connected' world.
