No doubt that the A380 has a corner of the market, just too small a corner to make it profitable is the point I am making, the market has been wrongly assessed by Airbus, the A380 is not the major, three class, long haul replacement, as was planned. It will always be a popular mass transit carrier by the low cost and charter market, should they be able to afford it and departure times can be dictated by the operator, but in the major front end market it has no appeal at all if it cuts down the customer's, (the passenger's), options by reducing the number of daily flights from A to B.
Airbus are already in a very precarious finacial position and possibly the banks let them continue on the basis of their short haul orders?