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Old 2nd Dec 2000, 09:41
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I will admit that I'm biased.

On a different note, Boeing civilian aircraft production is not subsidized by US taxpayers (since the KC-135/707 in the 50's), while Airbus airliners are subsidized by very many European taxpayers, which has allegedly allowed Airbus to sell many planes at or below cost (in order to compete around the globe), which is called "dumping". The production costs were kept very confidential for very good reasons. This was in "Aviation Week and ST". I've flown Boeing and Douglas (along with Lockheed, Embraer and Shorts) products but not Airbus, at least not yet.

Incidentally, some of our maintenance (engineers) call the A-320 a "throw away airplane", their words, because of so many lightweight composite parts. They claim that replacement parts for the A-320/319 are much more expensive than for McDonald Douglas or Boeing planes.