Originally Posted by
Easy Street
It's already been said, but I feel like repeating it anyway: choosing the KC767 over the A330? Really?
Two comments:
1. May I ask how that that military contract remotely relates to illegal government subsidies for commercial products? The answer is not at all. In other words, a red herring.
2. In the case of the KC-767 and A330 MRTT contest, Airbus chose to provide a non conforming bid (no freighter door and no freighter floor.) And on top of that Boeing underbid Airbus. This being a fixed price contract, Boeing is now reaping the rewards of a low bid by having to write off many tens of millions in cost overruns.