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Airbus Raises Prospect of Ditching A380 as Orders Vanish
Airbus admits it may have misjudged the market for the double-decker after failing to find a single airline buyer this year. (www.bloomberg.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Maybe Boeing guessed the market correctly?
Gee Airbus has troubles too now those who like putting the other company down will give it up.
Both companies made bad calls.
Boeing should have focused their efforts to bring an updated version of the 777 to market and perhaps a 797 instead of the 737MAX. But they spent major $$$$!!! on the 748. The 748 may be a beautiful plane but sadly there never was a market for it.
Airbus should have focused their efforts on developing the A350 to be released before or at the same time as the 787. Also if they weren't tide up with the A380 they probably could have also brought a newer version of the A330 to the market sooner.
Both companies knew 10 years ago that the airlines wanted twin engine long range medium capacity aircraft like the A330 and 777, but ignored it. As I always say, you have to know your customers.
Boeing should have focused their efforts to bring an updated version of the 777 to market and perhaps a 797 instead of the 737MAX. But they spent major $$$$!!! on the 748. The 748 may be a beautiful plane but sadly there never was a market for it.
Airbus should have focused their efforts on developing the A350 to be released before or at the same time as the 787. Also if they weren't tide up with the A380 they probably could have also brought a newer version of the A330 to the market sooner.
Both companies knew 10 years ago that the airlines wanted twin engine long range medium capacity aircraft like the A330 and 777, but ignored it. As I always say, you have to know your customers.
They were too busy trying to outdo each other rather than pay attention to their customers.
Really, compared to the 748, it was a success, the 748 most likley won't break even, if production ends before 2023. With a 380neo and possibly a 389 in the pipeline, this could be a project that just gets bigger. The infadtructure to make the worlds largest passenger plane even bigger is there, it was planned from the start. It was a good idea going bigger than the 747, the next step is to do something that big with two engines, but that's far far away.
I think the analysts are missing the main killer of the "whales", the 777.