About the only reason Airbus takes any orders is that they offer terms that struggling carriers can't refuse. If Boeing was subsidized by taxpayers the way Airbus is it would outsell Airbus 10-1.
My son is a pilot with a major US carrier. He was switched from 727s to Airbus recently as his company phases out the Boeings. He likes the fly by wire and state of the art avionics, but other than that I think he would rather be back in the old 727 workhorses.
His company bought the Airbus planes because it was offered a very enticing zero interest, long term payment deal that Boeing couldn't match. I suppose European taxpayers are picking up the tab for whatever amount Airbus will lose on the deal.
That is exactly how it is.
<< European taxpayers are picking up the tab for whatever amount Airbus will lose on the deal. >>
European taxpayers are picking up the tab for whatever amount Airbus DOES lose on EVERY deal.
Airbus is a lying looting thieving syphon by which it and its political and Brussels' bureaucratic cronies drain the public trough, wax fat, live high on the hog and get rich on the backs of every Euro-peon.
Until the bubble [Which the way overweight and already delayed A-380 is already pricking away at] bursts.