Aviation Week agrees with Stinky Pete.

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"Stinky Pete" wrote in message
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Check out the Jan 19th issue of Aviation Week. In there they make a solid
case that the fragmentation of air routes has already started. This
clearly
favors the long term propects of the Boeing 7E7 over the Airbus A380.

As they point out, the trend is towards fewer seats.

They ask the question...if Airlines are parking their 747's and replacing
them with smaller aircraft such as the 777, why would they want the A380?
It's going in the wrong direction.

The compelling business case is for the 7E7, not the A380.

Not nessecarily defending the A380 here but isn't AvLeek overwhelmingly
aimed at the _US_ Aviation/Airline Industry members market? I don't think
anyone really expected to sell larger than 747 aircraft to US Airlines after
about 1980 or so, I always got the Impression that the Target market was
mostly Middle/Far East

Fot that matter I don't think Airbus is proposing to stop offering A330's
and 340's....

Totally off-topic, sorry...

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Not nessecarily defending the A380 here but isn't AvLeek overwhelmingly
aimed at the _US_ Aviation/Airline Industry members market? I don't think
anyone really expected to sell larger than 747 aircraft to US Airlines
after
about 1980 or so, I always got the Impression that the Target market was
mostly Middle/Far East

Fot that matter I don't think Airbus is proposing to stop offering A330's
and 340's....



During years, Airbus has claimed that the main commercial advantage of
Boeing was its ability to offer a full span of aircraft sizes, from
commuters to Jumbos, with a global and unique maintenance service, and that
the air companies did prefer outsourcing their maintenance to a unique
partner. Airbus said that this was the reason why it HAD to build the A-380,
to complete its panel of aircraft. Without a Jumbo-size plane, Airbus was
told that Boeing was preferable.
If this policy is still in force, I can't see why Airbus would stop the
production of any size of aircraft. This would make a hole in their product
range.

Yours
Chistophe
(not a specialist in civil aviation, BTW)