Airbus 15 minutes of fame over?

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 09:04:54 -0500, E. Barry Bruyea
wrote:

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:59:32 GMT, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
wrote:

Boeing is predicting 275 deliveries for 2004 while Airbus is already
downplaying its sales and saying they will only deliver about 250 this year.

Boeing already has new orders for 20 aircraft.

With the current Euro/Dollar situation, any US airline that was thinking
about buying Airbus is likely to reconsider. That Airbus plane will cost 20%
more than it would have just 12 months ago.


The Europeans should be happy, given the level of direct and indirect
subsidies that Airbus receives; the more they sell, the more the
taxpayers have to kick in.

While the U.S., specifically Washington State, kicks in a $3.2 billion
tax-incentive package for Boeing to keep 1200 assembly line jobs for
the 7E7 in the state. Then add in the millions of tax dollars spent
retraining tens of thousands of laid off Boeing workers whose jobs
have been shipped overseas and, and....