The future of widebody aircraft

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What people do not realize is that the A380 and the 787 target very different markets. The future is not in one or the other, but both. The 787 with the GE GEnx engine (if both ever actually get working) will become the dominant aircraft for what we all think of as standard routes - flying inside the US or the EU. The A380 will take over in developing nations with the ability to build the airports required, newly wealthy populations demanding cheap air travel, and the development capital to pull it all together. The two aircraft are simply two different visions of the future of air travel, and both are correct.

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