The beggining of the end of Airbus A380?
 

According to BBC Business News, Airbus is possibly planning on ending production of A380 by 2018. There is not enough interest to sustain profibility.

Also delivery of A350 to Qatar Airlines this Friday was cancelled for unknown reason(s). Qatar is not happy.

When the A380 first started flying I thought NO WAY I would fly on one. Too big. Too many passengers. But I must eat my words because next week I will fly Thai A380 for the 3rd time...admittedly in royal first class ( mileage award). What a wonderful flight! I travel via FRA from ORD to BKK. Looking forward to my 3rd first class experience.

You really have to thank the Thai taxpayers to continue subsidizing your trips. :) But since you keep going and spending money, I guess that's working "as intended".

Or maybe not: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/ai...--finance.html

As I posted, "possibly", so perhaps the article was based on wrong information.

A350 as it seems was not delivered on time because of the buyers delivery of their own seats and such.

You can't always trust what you read... :-)

The Airbus CEO equates "about to break even" with "about to be successful".

The Finance Director says the A380 would "break even through 2018". I suppose that means that he expects that A380 production won't benefit from an economy of scale due to a lack of orders. They sell at cost and break even.

After the "crazy" talk the FD made about discontinuing the A380 he might be able to keep his job by convincing the CEO that 4 years of breaking even is a smashing success.

"When the A380 first started flying I thought NO WAY I would fly on one."

I thought the same thing. Then I flew business class on the Singapore Airlines A380 (Zurich to Singapore and back). Now I'm a convert, although maybe not for regular economy.