LONDON - Airbus' notoriously delay-stricken super-jumbo A380 got a new customer for the first time in two years on Thursday, after British Airways snapped up 12 of the planes in a deal worth nearly $4 billion. But the good news will not dispel worries over profitability at the European plane-maker, as well as the ascendancy of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner. Although British Airways broke with tradition by placing its first ever order for Airbus' A380, it still gave a boost to Boeing by ordering 24 Dreamliners, the mid-sized craft that has so far raked in over 700 orders and is set for a maiden flight before the end of the year.
| If the orders get any more lopsided the Airbus will start looking like the Taliban in an ambush. |