I dont quite understand how an outright goverment subsidy(Airbus) can be compared to a goverment military contract to supply aircraft( Boeing). Working for airbus in the design teem must be a dream come true . Design anything you want if the product does not sell, then so what, the goverment will pick up the tab anyway . Try that at boeing . Any project that has the potential to lose will not make it off the drawing board . This is a constraint that airbus does not have . Boeing have been hobbled by this agreement and its about time that it is scrapped . It was an agreement intended to get airbus going in what was then a very ineficient europe . Well Europe has changed Its fully unified and very efficient . In its unified state its larger economically than the USA and can more than stand on its own two feet . Time to remove the Subsidy