It was always going to be a money-loser for Airbus- kind of like our generations Concorde.
Airbus may well cancel the line, but to draw parallels to Concorde is a bit extreme.
How can you say "It was always going to be a money loser?" Such prescience Wiz. I don't know why Airbus didn't contact you when they were designing it.
Did you send an email to Boeing when they were designing the 747-8 and also advise them that its not a good idea?