Originally Posted by
Imagegear
I doubt Airbus would be up for the runaround again after the last debacle.
IG
Establishing a new partnership with L-M (
see this from a couple of years ago) suggests that they’d already decided they were up for it. However, Boeing was in better health back then and it might have been conceivable that Airbus could win a genuine competition. Now, with Boeing in deep **** post-737 MAX and COVID, I should imagine that Congress will be looking for any excuse to
funnel state aid, ahem, I mean award them another big DoD contract. Given the changed landscape I wonder if Airbus will reconsider, or at least insist that its bid costs be covered as a precondition of entering any competition.