[RayChuang88]

I think Airbus is rapidly finding out that their widebody jets aren't as popular as they once were. With the arrival for the more fuel-efficient and technologically-advanced 787 and the longer-range versions of the 777, that has pretty much dried up a lot of potential sales of A330 and A340 planes. The A350 proposal from Airbus hasn't impressed that many airlines, who feel the A350 is essentially an A330 with a new tail, wings and engines, which while more efficient than the A330 still doesn't offer the type of efficiency the 787 offers.

It appears that Airbus' marketing efforts would be better spent on their A320 Family airliners, which are competitive against the current Boeing 737 models.

[DennisR]

Airbus' spending $16 billion on the A380 will get them one thing: the largest commercial airlines. Profits? Forget about them. This will be Concorde II. Interesting plane, very few produced, never profitable.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

AirRUST, the Euros and the America haters were all giddy about Boeing's lack of sales in the passed few years, and giddy about the 747's all but dried up sales ( not for long, and when Boeing introduces the new 747 Advanced, it will have a impact on the Aflop-380 sales ) in the last 2 years.
And we can take a good guess, that the airlines will jump on the bandwagon for the more fuel efficient models of Boeing's product lines, and have a windfall when the oil prices come down at the end of this summer to $ 35 a barrel.
The oil crunch could not have come at a better time for Boeing, since it was one ( the major reason ) of the reasons the Airlines are jumping on the bandwagon for Boeing's 787 product line.
lol..... AirRUST sunk all that money into the AirRUST Aflop-380, and AirRUST's other product lines are not selling well.