To a few enthousiasts posters here: you missed the point.
Somebody mentionned the "near disaster history" with the Airbus 380. To what I reply that's bullcr@p, as Boeing has its share of disaster too but nobody jump on it like that, Boeing had planes that fell down from the sky too, but when it comes to Airbus this is all about disaster scary bed stories only. I spoke about the B747 alone (more than 2800 persons died in B747 disasters, more than the whole FBW entire Airbus fleet), but if you take Boeing in its whole, that's thousands, thousands, thousands of people who died (including in recent times), the disaster history actually do exist with Boeing, no need to play the witch hunt with Airbus: Boeing is not better (in fact worse) in accident rate, death, and hull loss. However everybody seems to think the opposite, that is called brainwhashing.