I don't care what you say, Airbus should BuRn and bUrN badly. Boeing ownz the airliner market and it should stay that way!

gotta agree with you saratoga, many people know my feelings on airbus and they arnt pretty at all:) there business practices are shall we say less than ethical, they give away their planes just to get extra business, the A340 has tobe the most underpowered aircraft i have ever seen. and they say the A320's meant to be quiet, Bulls**T is it, on takeoff it felt and sounded like we were going to be pulled apart there was so much noise.
i am much happier on a boeing any day, give me a 777 over a 330, and then with the 7E7 coming into service the future looks bright for boeing

Whats the big deal, theyre all busses  8)
I've flown on A-319s, 737s, A-320s and 757s and thyre all quiet considering their aluminium tubes shooting (lumbering) through the air at 500+ mph at about 7 miles up
besides Airbus provide healthy competition for Boeing.

Saratoga, be careful what you say. There are many Airbus supporters out there........ I'd hate for you to have an accident, say somebody covering your house in marmalade

Ozzy

Bah, let em at me! I have flown a  330 one trip, and a 767 back, the 767 was roomier, it felt, and, as was stated before, MUCH quieter and A LOT smoother. I say it is good and healthy for some compitition, but, I still believe that Boeing does and should rule the market. They Copied parts of Boeing planes, which is illegal in the U.S., but they aren't here, are they? And as CraigL said about the under-poweredness, it is quite visible as you said, the 330 takes close to twice as much runway in reality as a 767 or 777 and cruises slower. Not sure on PAX capability, but it's surely less than the 777. Never been on a 340, but I have seen pictures of the takeoffs, it is quite sad. Seen them leave DFW too, slows traffic down a lot when they accelerate like that and take soo much runway to get off.

You cann all tell who I like by my name.  Airbus also gets funding $$$ from all sorts of European Gov'ts.  Boeing- while friends with the USGOV and filling a big order for the USAF- is still a private corporation.

Boeings are so much more interesting- the 747, 757, 777, and 727 are all unique.  Airbus has never made anything except tons of twinjet tubes and an underpowered 4-engine plane. 

LONG LIVE BOEING!  and the A380 is UGLY and can burn too!  Sorry for the rant...

urgh i dont like the side stick, doesnt give you enough of a feeling of the aircraft, fly by wire is bad enough, but then to give you a little thing by your side, makes it worse, i love the feeling of a proper yoke infront of me. as for needing to be left or right handed, thats not a problem as when your in control of the throttle quad as well as the yoke ie take off landing, that comes into play anyway. captain needs left hand on controls right on throttle and so on.
like i said, the A320 i went on felt very unsafe it was shaking like mad without turbulence and noisey as hell

true:)
there is one advantageand its the only advantage to a side stick.
the pull out table you get in front of you, makes laptop use eating dinner, and writing out the landing departure and all other procedures that much easier. but with the EFB slowly coming in that wont matter anyway.