Atakacs, somebody said it earlier, cost was the reason the TL's don't have feedback when power changes with the AT system and the TL's don't move.
bubbers,
For Pete's sake!
Do you really believe what you've written?
I mean really, your credulous bias towards believing anything negative you hear about an Airbus from sources likely so varied as to include your cousin's niece's nanny's boyfriend is obvious, but even you have to have a limit to your gullibility somewhere.
Somebody who? Where exactly? And with what actual knowledge of the Airbus design objectives? Cost differentials based on what set of manufacturing and operating processes?
Is posting "somebody said .." a reflection of the limit of your analytical skills? If you think it's true then investigate. Find the facts that support the position and post those. Show some depth of thought instead of being a simple reflection of what some unknown somebody
might have said somewhere sometime.
I sure hope you don't carry the same unchallenging acceptance of hearsay into the cockpit with you.
ELAC