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Old 16th Apr 2004, 06:56
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BEagle
 
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Good news for the Airbus team!

But not terribly surprising. My unofficial analysis of the KC-767A against the A330 to meet the 2 key Australian requirements showed that the A330 met them comfortably, whereas the 767 didn't quite. Add to that the vastly better take-off perfromance of the A330 plus the recent Boeing ethics concerns and it seemed a pretty obvious single horse race.

Good onya!
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