Wow...talk about going out with a bang!
Airbus needs 420 deliveries to break even. They have 176 firm orders. Best case, after few deliveries in 2008-09, they start full production of 45 A380's a year in 2010. It takes Airbus until 2020 to break even, and at what risk? Sick, sick, sick what pride has wrought. Boeing seems sincerely saddened by all this. They recognize that the world will demand competition for them and Airbus is committing slow suicide.