Sludge, you got a problem with the 380. Not to worry, but don't use one less-than-ideal landing to castigate the whole program. You are not paying for it! Don't worry about it. It took the 747 program years to go into profit, and some 35 years to reach 1500 hulls. The 380 will outsell that....over 35 years. And we haven't seen the 'stretched' version yet (that wing and those engines are built for a lot of growth). Got to sell 250 to go into profit? The eventual numbers for Emirates, BA and SIA will exceed that alone! Look what happened to the 707/DC8 when bigger came along. Whilst the US hangs onto point-to-point and its drawbacks, other countries are doing central hubs to central hubs- in the future, the 380 will be the right size for the rest of the world. Let it prove itself- you're not paying in the meantime.