All of France is in trouble in the employment sector, people work to little, it is impossible to fire people. Many young people graduating university are unemployed because companys dont want to hire people seeing as they cant fire them if they are incompatent.
Lets just hope Germany takes more of the Airbus production over from the frogs. I recently read that Germany took over final assembly from the French. I say the Germans take over the whole operation.
On a side note, the reason Boeing is overtaking Airbus(large aircraft, Airbus still kickin ass with the 320) is that Boeing was able to restructure by laying off thousands, outsourcing work to China. Airbus cant do that, plus they pay there Workers in the Euro, production costs are in the Euro to. Boeing is not doing better because there planes are better... they are doing better because of economic circumstances.
Airbus is still number ONE! All you Boeing suppoters can keep your MADE IN CHINA planes
