Don’t forget my friend, all governments mislead their citizens as to the actual costs of large projects, mostly because of ignorance. The American people were mislead by NASA about how cheap it would be to fly the space shuttle back and forth into space. Since Europe is heavily socialized, AIRBUS is basically a government enterprise and the 450 to 700 break even point on the A-380 is much closer to accurate than the 250 number reported by your BBC man.