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Old 11th August 2004 | 15:03
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Wino
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Well since we want to go into innaccuracies.

The "Tax breaks" given by the state of Washington were to bring the state into alignment with the tax policies of other states, and not specific to Boeing. Infact those exact same breaks are available to Airbus should they decide to do aircraft work in the state of Washington. Are similar grants to boeing available to from the EU as were given to Airbus?

The Maintenance center was not paid for by the state of indiana though it is most certainly empty. Again, as the space if vacant it is available for lease should Airbus like to use it.

Actually the Airforce has been trying to get tankers for quite some time now. The price paid would still be less than trying to operate the old E's Incase you haven't noticed the operational tempo of the US military has been quite high and there is a critical shortage of tankers available, but once again congress if fiddling while Rome burns....


But you can't complain at all about any military pecurement because Airbus's military contracts are larger than Boeing...

As to airbus aircraft prices. No airline in the world pays list price for airliners Everyone knows that. Huge discounts happen on those. Launch customers get even larger discounts than that...

My bone of contention is not the jobs.

My bone of contention is that profitable companies are being destroyed by government jobs agencies. Airbus perverts the free market by not having to pay its R and D expenses...

Maybe its time for a taste of your own medicine. By effectively dumping aircraft (not having to pay developement costs so you are selling the aircraft below their cost) you have initiated a trade war already. And you can't claim its to catch up if you have 50 percent of the market already...


And I see that once again its America's fault that concorde flopped. If it was such a great aircraft, why couldn't it go somewhere else than America. Surely there are other city pairs the same distance or less as london and NY... Infact if you were to take a globe you would be astonished at the number of places on earth similar distances apart and not part of America, yet the concorde couldn't make a go of that either. Certainly that wouldn't be America's fault, would it?

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