Airbus has been the subject of a daily article this week in the Wall
Street Journal.
Today's story reported yesterday's meeting with financial entities in
Europe. At this meeting Airbus disclosed that the breakeven number of
A380 aircraft now stands at 420 articles. This is up from the previous
forecast last year of 270 which superceded the original 250.
There are currently 159 orders for the A380 by 16 customers. It is
possible that some of these may be cancelled due to the two year delay
in first delivery.
Airbus forecasts the total orders for the A380 over the next 20 years to
be 751 while Boeing forecasts the total market for very large aircraft
(over 400 seats) to be 990. This number includes the A340 and B777.