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Unsurpising coming from the company that gave you the Boeing 737 Max.
by vfclists 5y ago
Unsurpising coming from the company that gave you the Boeing 737 Max.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y agoDoes seem like they are earning a reputation of making poor business decisions.
- themerone 5y agoSeems like an industry problem. Airbus's decition to design and build the A380 was, from a business perspective, as big a blunder as the 737 Max.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoWas less a business decision and more of a EU pride and status endeavour. Death march to solidarity sort of thing. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbus-a380-history-analysis/airbus-a380-from-european-dream-to-white-elephant-idUSKCN1Q30K4 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbus-a380-history-analy...
- Rexxar 5y agoEven if A380 is not profitable by itself, it's globally a good think to have done it for European industry. A lot of designs and ideas used for it have been reused in more recent planes.
- samfisher83 5y agoIt was also a jobs program.
- hef19898 5y agoThe question before the A380 eas developed was which model would win: hub-and-spoke or direct flights. Airbus thoight it was hub and spoke, Boeing bet on direct flights. Hence the A380 and B777. Sure Airbus was proud to build something bigger than the B747. Now, both the 747 and the A380 are gone. The biggest blinder was to not have a proper cargo version of the A380. It did prompt the A350 and B787 so, both of which are great planes.
- himinlomax 5y agoThe market changed drastically while the plane was being developed. Had the program started a few years earlier, it would have been, if not successful, at least profitable. And if it had started a few years later, it would have been canceled before completion.