when will airbus give up?

Question

when will airbus finally give up and just let boeing take over and how much are they going to drain out of the french goverment?

to answer 3 i know they get subsidies from the french goverment but they have years and years of pushbacks and having to lay off like 50% of their workers and UPS removed all their orders form airbus and placed them all with boeing and it just looks like airbus is going down faster and faster

Answer 1

Never. Airbus is just on a downward cycle right now (although the A380 might have been too big of a gamble, literally and figuratively) Boeing was also in a downward cycle when Airbus was gobbling up orders about 5 years ago.

When there are only two giant manufacturers building large, commercial aircraft, it will be feast for one and famine for the other.

Answer 2

Right after Boeing.

Don't confuse the FUD coming out of Seattle as real news. Airbus is just suffering a few short term issues. Boeing has had issues too, there was all that fuss about them trying to bribe the military into a ridiculously expensive tanker deal, people went to prison for that one. Then there's all those 737s that unaccountably spun in on approach and Boeing still doesn't like to admit that they may still have an issue with the rudder control system.

Airbus isn't French, it's European, and Europe is rightfully extremely cautious about trusting the US too far. As a former UK defense systems engineer I have bitter experience of the US 'partners' destroying our projects. The UK allowed the US defense industry to destroy much of the UK industry in this way, we'd be unbelievably foolish to let them turn the commercial aerospace sector into a monopoly, at least in the west.

And remember, Boeing isn't competing with the A380 yet while Airbus has orders for the A350 which does compete with the B787. You are taking a childishly short term and parochial view of this, Boeing and Airbus are in a decades long fight which will probably never be allowed to have a single winner.

Boeing is subsidised with tax breaks, do your research properly.

Answer 3

Its never gonna work out for Airbus, but the European govenments wont let Airbus go away. The A380 crippled the company and the A350 will be killed by the 787 and Airbus will be a sitting duck, surviving only off of government funding... Boeing, on the other hand is thriving with tons of orders and the 787 already a success.

Answer 4

What a joke of a question.

You're referring to the ongoing court battle at the WTO between both parties and the accusation of state funding at Airbus.

I think you should get your facts straight....Airbus doesn't only just get funding from the French...but from the Brits, Germans and Spaniards as well!!

Why on earth do you think the court battle has stopped and started and stopped again for the last few years? The Americans/Boeing are finding it tough to fight their case and can't even defend the accusation that they get state funding across their business units as well.

The problems at Airbus are political. The French love to meddle and they are very 'protectionist' and this has upset the Germans (and Brits who have now sold their stake). Don't underestimate the power of the EU in this case, I refer you also to the ongoing Open Skies negotiations - the EU is standing firm.

A measure of success is that of orders....and Airbus has beaten Boeing consistently over the last few years....Boeing not too happy and neither are you!

Another sign of success would be that American carriers now regularly order Airbus aircraft and have Airbus aircraft in their fleet.....

Get real mate - Airbus will never give up!

Answer 5

Airbus is a company with excellent products, it just happens that the current line of products aren't competing as well in the open market against their rival. That said, Airbus isn't out of the game yet. The only option Airbus has is stiff competition to beat the competitors benefits, and it's entirely possible that it could happen.

Boeing was in the same position almost exactly 10 years ago. I've tried to answer this question as a counter to the question becuase the question seemed biased to begin with.

Answer 6

When Boeing can outsell them and drive them into bankruptcy (never). I am a Boeing fan, but Airbus is selling a good product, and thats hard to overcome once a company gets the market share that Airbus has. Boeing is trying to compete with a Government subsidized entity. That is impossible.

Answer 7

Airbus will never give up. Even though I am a Boeing fan, I think it is good to have at least 2 airplane manufacturers because it makes them more competitive. Each company will try to build a better product which only benefits us the consumer/passenger.

Answer 8

It does seem so, but I really doubt they will be in any kind of trouble. No doubt the A380 seems to be delayed but in long term will be the industries "want to own" AIRBUS will still maintain its stance as the highest commercial airplane "deliverer" (more than BOEING & EMBRAER) Draining the French government, i personally won't agree. EADs has interest in most of W. Europe

Answer 9

airbus will never give up. they have just brought out the a380 and they have new plans to bring out a similar big plane like it boeing are not planning to bring out a plane like airbus are. if compaines are fling airbuses and passengers are using them they are not going to give up. airbus just want to design, build and sell their planes as long as they do that they are going to stay in business. Boeing are just great planes as airbuses.why will airbus give up when they are selling planes to airlines and making a good profit???????

Answer 10

The A380 is to freaking big! The A340 has to many engines for its size. Airbus needs to just give up