A380 Marketing Department Fight Song

Aficionados of obscure rock bands will immediately recognize the following as Surfin' Bird, recorded in the middle sixties by the Trashmen, one of the Twin Cities' more interesting garage bands. It seems to fill the bill for the A380 folks.


A-well-a everybody's heard about the bird
B-b-b-bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a don't you know about the bird?
Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word!
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird's the word

What you haven't heard is when those two Singapore Airlines birds are going to get delivered. It is reported in Forbes.com today that Airbus says they'll absolutely positively make its deliveries by the end of 2006. Of course, numbers are plastic around the Airbus marketing department these days as we saw in the January scrum that ended up-you guessed it-handing the order crown to Airbus. So, it depends on what Noel Forgeard means by 'the end of the year'-and what that is is anyone's guess.