Rainboe, the A-380 will make money just like the Concorde did - never. Even by Airbus' account, they gotta sell 250 of them to break EVEN! Good luck with that. It's the European taxpayer, just as with the Concorde, who will pay the bills. It's a huge govt. jobs creation program.
Hmmm.
Given that they already sold 200 of them, it doesn't seem like much of a stretch, does it?
And before you say "yeah, there were 200 Concordes sold, too", they've already delivered A380s to more customers (3, 4th one later in the year) than Concorde was delivered to (2). AND, to boot, none of the customers that have so far taken delivery are European, so none are a part of your "European government/taxpayer" conspiracy, either.
So how does that work, then?
Do the rest of the opinions expressed in these posts hold as much credibility as the above two little gems?
p-k-b