Nihon-Wish I could have flown the YS-11.
Bin the Bus? I've never been trained on an Airbus (although might be in the future), but no matter how advanced the technology on fly-by-wire series, the US airlines' economic advantage operating Airbus products (and their major foothold here) is mostly due to tax subsidies which are provided by so many European/British taxpayers.
The first major foothold in North America, or the USA, was 'allegedly' via kickbacks to some former airline CEO(s), via the 'alleged' CDU/CSU "Verbindung".
Suffa? Oft besoffen?
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