Please type “A380 breakeven” into any large search engine and you will find many news reports of Airubs publicly stating that the breakeven had been raised to 420 planes in 2006. Here is one I pulled at random:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6067540.stm

There are still, nine years into the program, only about 200ish orders.

Now, I’m not a highly respected financial analyst, but it seems rather obvious that a project 9 years on that only has half of it’s breakeven, and no new orders on the horizon, and estabished customers seeking to delay deliveries CAN’T be on the firmest of financial footing. How much additional evidence does a reasonable person need? I doubt that Airbus is going to publicly come out and state that the program is in financial crisis, if that is what you need to be convinced, I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree.

Someone stated in the other thread that ALL airplane makes are under the same pressure. True, but none of those are such a huge capital risk and none are at this critical stage of gestation.

So not the 787 where it seems a raft of airlines are raising concerns about the numbers coming out of Boeing regarding performance and thats before it’s even taken to the air? And I didn’t realise that you, Great Overseeing Master of Aeronautical Engineering have decreed that an aircraft must breakeven within a given timescale proscribed by yourself. Only a fool or idiot would have forecast 420 A380 orders within 9 years so which one are you?