I was just perusing Airbus's website in some spare time, and came across a factoid from the following link: http://www.airbus.com/en/aircraftfam...a310/a300-600/.

Here is it:

The most reliable jet in airliner service today, the A300-600 is the benchmark for operating economy in the mid-size aircraft category.

Haha, that's pretty funny. If malfunctioning rudders are a characteristic of an aircraft that is a benchmark for the mid-size category, then what has aviation come to today