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Is this the end of A380 the world's largest airplane?
Airbus shares plunged on Wednesday, their worst drubbing in more than six years, after the planemaker predicted flat profits in 2016, surprising investors who had expected new and recently upgraded models to start boosting results that year.
The second-largest planemaker globally has had difficulties selling A380, the world's largest passenger jet - and could cut production altogether.
For over a year, it has been studying three strategic options: cut production, invest in an upgrade or stop trying to sell more A380s and merely produce what it has already sold.
Chief executive Tom Enders said Airbus would take a decision "purely on economic terms" in the near to mid-term.
Finance Director Harald Wilhelm said the project would break even in 2015 and stay in balance through 2018, whether it decided to improve or discontinue it.
It is pushing for at least one new customer by end-year and is said to be increasingly focusing its sales pitch on the flexibility of the two passenger decks, telling airlines this will help collect more premium revenues.
Airbus shares plunged on Wednesday, their worst drubbing in more than six years, after the planemaker predicted flat profits in 2016, surprising investors who had expected new and recently upgraded models to start boosting results that year.
The second-largest planemaker globally has had difficulties selling A380, the world's largest passenger jet - and could cut production altogether.
For over a year, it has been studying three strategic options: cut production, invest in an upgrade or stop trying to sell more A380s and merely produce what it has already sold.
Chief executive Tom Enders said Airbus would take a decision "purely on economic terms" in the near to mid-term.
Finance Director Harald Wilhelm said the project would break even in 2015 and stay in balance through 2018, whether it decided to improve or discontinue it.
It is pushing for at least one new customer by end-year and is said to be increasingly focusing its sales pitch on the flexibility of the two passenger decks, telling airlines this will help collect more premium revenues.
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