Boeing depends on steady growth of demand for air cargo travel for order inflow for the Boeing 747-8. Airbus depends on passengers for order inflow for the Airbus A380. Airbus has to make A380 ...

Until the emergence of Boeing’s 747-8 as a firm programme last year, Airbus had the 400-plus-seat market all to itself with its 550-seat A380, but now faces a serious challenge in both the ...