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Old 14th Jun 2012, 02:06
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I've never said other than that the Whale will make money fo EK on the right routes- I'm still skeptical there are 90 Airframes worth of those, but we'll see.
EK is not just in the business of making profit, its also in the business of costing others profit. Sucking up all the volume of traffic will soon send others broke.

I maintain it will NEVER show a profit for Airbus, and even the figures you quote mean they haven't sold nearly enough.
They don't care. Airbus is an EU project, meant to counterbalance Boeing and the US. The A380 was always a politically based development meant to project EU power by building the biggest jet. Airbus is to big to fail. The taxpayer will bail it out in the end if it all goes pearshaped.
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