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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by hinkley on Thursday February 14, 2019 @03:20AM (#19160421)
As a Boeing employee once explained it to me:

If you take off two engines, you have to redesign the wings. If you’re redesigning the wings, you might as well do the whole aircraft.

Implication being that the fuselage is a fraction of the cost of an airplane design.

Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by bb101 on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:00AM (#19160588)
I've heard that too. From an engineering POV, the aircraft _is_ the wings, and the fuselage is a simple tube in comparison.