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Old Oct 10, 2013 | 6:21 am
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Originally Posted by auburntiger
"The A380 is, by definition, an uneconomic airplane unless you're a state-owned enterprise with subsidies."
Perhaps not state-owned but as the big US legacy carriers have only survived the last 10 years on various sort of direct and indirect subsidies from the US state, the A380 sounds perfect for them.

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