Apart from Air Canada Northwest US Airways Aer Lingus Austrian Air France BMI CSA Iberia SN Brussels Airlines SAS Swiss TAP-Air Portugal Virgin Aeroflot to list only scheduled operators. And it was a stupid ad which was not appreciated by operators of Airbus twins and it was ironic because Airbus led Boeing originally in the long-range twin concept. Antoin Daltun ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerard M Foley" <gfoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: 01 December 2004 21:17 Subject: Re: Backlash from Airbus ads still fresh > From: "Clay Wardlow" <clay.wardlow@xxxxxxxx> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 11:08 AM > <snip> > > > Meanwhile, Airbus just started a new ad campaign > <snip> > > One of the planes in the ad is an A330. Two engines, it would seem, > > really are as good as four, regardless of which side of the Atlantic you > > are building jetliners on. > > I have a strong impression that aside from Lufthansa's A340 services, there > are relatively few Airbus's used over the North Atlantic. I can't think of > any A300 or A310 operations, and the only two engine Airbuses I recall are > Canadian A330's. > > If I'm right, any ideas why? Please don't say they're unsafe. > > Gerry > http://www.pbase.com/gfoley9999/ > http://foley.ultinet.net/~gerry/aerial/aerial.html > http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley > http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html >