PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Northrup Grumman/EADS win USAF tanker bid
Old 2nd Mar 2008, 18:41
  #100 (permalink)  
HalloweenJack
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: UK
Posts: 94
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
I must laugh im afraid:

www.forbes.com
Announcing the deal, EADS said in a statement late Friday it would co-locate the final assembly of the tankers at Mobile, Alabama, 'creating the first new large commercial aircraft assembly facility in the US in over 40 years'.
In reaction, the CFDT union issued a statement saying the decision 'will not be without consequences on an industrial as well as employment level and notably for the Toulouse plant'

Now french unions are complaining as well - i do actually hope that one day , at some point within the next 20 years the US actually gets the new tankers...
HalloweenJack is offline