Rainboe you have your blinkers on! The A380 was around long before the recession started, in fact the recession has nothing to do with the lack of A380 orders, Airbus mis-read the market. Boeing offered them a consortium, which AB refused, so Boeing dropped out of the VLA competition secure in the knowledge that without them it would fail, no American buyers, think Concord.
Right now AB are up to their necks in debt and the A380 isn't going to get them out of it, not now and not in a few years time, either.