The very successful US airline JetBlue supposedly paid nothing for the A-320 aircraft leases for the first one or two years. This was supposedly not to be found in print. Competition can create irresistable incentives to offer aircraft for almost nothing.
But maybe you guys/gals pay even higher taxes to support such sales/lease strategies, along with the German and French taxpayers. Ouch. The west Germans are seriously gouged due to the 'merger' in '89 (schmerzhaft
).
Maybe it was only a very strong, frequent rumour about JetBlue.
Could Boeing have also priced certain products below cost? If so, wish they would give us some cheap 737s, but an article in the "Wall Street Journal" claimed that Boeing's Sales Reps are/were not given enough latitude in time-sensitive price negotiations, compared to Airbus Sales Reps, and therefore many sales were lost due to the more centralized control at Boeing.
It must be quite interesting nowadays over in the P.R. China.