(1) Gorgeous airbus , plenty of spare seats and most professional and courteous hostesses/stewards.(2) We allow airlines in the United States to buy airbus aircraft, they're subsidized by governments in Europe.(3) The airbus from Heathrow was almost empty, which you'd expect at 6.34 am, and I sat on the top deck right in front, not caring that the sun was shining into my eyes because the vapour trails in the sky were worth risking blindness for.(4) A replacement airbus was flown over from Belfast and the fed up passengers eventually left two days later and arrived in Manchester 43 hours later than expected.(5) But by the mid-1990s airbus had made serious inroads on U.S. market shares both here and around the world.