"...and we are changed with them", he finished.
Economic prognosticators are saying that there are huge cancellations pending for the aircraft makers as the downturn goes on biting. So the crowded order books for both will perhaps be about to look desperately empty (again ... "it's one of them cycle things, yer know" ...). So the A330 won't necessarily be facing off against the 767 which is already as good as out of production, but the 777 which could be in dire need of firm orders from a friendly government.
Expect loud acrimony about the WTO "decision" from both sides of the "pond" and not a cool head to talk facts - Europe's way of financing Airbus projects in the past, and in the future, will be given the smoke & mirrors treatment, while few in Europe will be as strong about the shifty ways of the American industry and its very strong desire to be Master of the World ...
That said, both Boeing and Airbus may feel in private, a need to pull their punches, as in a while they may need WTO backing to make life difficult for arising competition from Brazil and China, as well as, perhaps, Russia. Now that will be a cat-fight to end all cat-fights - fine for old war-horses like me who scent the smoke of battles to come ...
"Tempora mutantur" indeed.
