he asks. "The production delay has pushed the schedule out for those early delivery shots, and the size of the Power8 restructuring has turned out to be much larger than we thought it would be a year ago," Stacey adds. Airbus chief executive Louis Gallois has referred to the fact that there are "unfavourably priced aircraft" in the Airbus backlog, and although it is not known whether these include A380s, Stacey says Airbus may find "that it costs a bit more than it calculated to build the A380 and therefore may have to rethink the pricing of the aircraft". He says that with A380 orders exceeding 150 units and equating to several years of sold-out production "maybe Airbus will be less aggressive in the marketplace and won't view every A380 competition as a 'must win' order, which could allow Boeing to gain some market.