The “Mighty Boeing Killer” is on it’s deathbed. This is what happens when you make business decisions based on penis envy. Boeing wisely decided to get out of the mega plane market and focus on high-efficiency planes that could fill the demand of a world moving quickly towards point-to-point connections instead of routing everyone through major airport hubs and connecting flights.
People hate connecting flights, especially international connecting flights, due the hassle of security and everything else that goes with airplane travel.
Reminds me of the Concord...
That and the fact the Airbus is propped up with European taxpayers money, which makes it much easier to overlook that little thing called cost vs benefits analysis. Boeing on the other hand has share holders to answer to and by and large they don’t like the company building stuff that is designed to lose money from the get-go.