Majors’ mergers boost A380’s prospects in USA: Airbus

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/08/10/345963/majors-mergers-boost-a380s-prospects-in-usa-airbus.html

Flightglobal's ACAS database records just 45 passenger 747s in service with North American airlines, and unsurprisingly Airbus does not see the region as being a major A380 market. It predicts just 5% of the 1,318 very large airliners forecast for delivery over the next 20 years will go to airlines in the region, or a total of 64 aircraft. This compares with more than 700 aircraft expected to be needed by Asia-Pacific airlines, or 55% of the entire market.