To: Righty_McRight
Nyuck nyuck nyuck. (three stooges)
2 posted on
11/06/2006 5:31:57 PM PST by
kinoxi
To: Righty_McRight
I'm never setting foot on one of those things, if I can help it.
3 posted on
11/06/2006 5:32:00 PM PST by
rlmorel
(The US Media...Where you get Million Dollar Words From people with a Ten Cent Fart for a brain.)
To: Righty_McRight
vast restructuring plan = vast left wing conspiracy???
4 posted on
11/06/2006 5:33:27 PM PST by
69ConvertibleFirebird
(Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
To: Righty_McRight
Wow...talk about going out with a bang!
5 posted on
11/06/2006 5:33:42 PM PST by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: Righty_McRight
"Airbus announced in October that it planned to implement a cost-cutting program to compensate for the financial strain caused by delays to deliveries of its sumperjumbo A380 plane."
Why do you need quality control inspectors anyway...and those expensive alloys, they didn't need them for the Hugo.
To: Righty_McRight
How much repercusion will this have in the US? (sp?)
7 posted on
11/06/2006 5:42:08 PM PST by
Mrs. Shawnlaw
(No NAIS! And the USDA can bugger off, too!)
To: Righty_McRight
Hard to really tell what is being done:
If you simply reduce the number of competing subcontractors - you can save on administration at the risk of being beat up on cost and performance.
Experience tells me that some faceless 'management' committee will suffer little damage from about 70% of the cuts, the other 30% will be the ones you needed the most for those pesky little issues no one else will touch.
If you reduce subcontracting and try to bring work into EADS shops you are going against every trend in industry and risking even greater cost overruns/quality lapses.
(You can't sue yourself, you can't withhold payments from yourself - 'yourself' has you over the barrel.)
Quality needs to be a separate measure - but I don't trust Airburst to handle that too very well.
10 posted on
11/06/2006 5:48:35 PM PST by
norton
To: Righty_McRight
Hopefully not the ones that make the wings and engines... they're gonna need those guys.
Airbus plans to cut 80 percent of subcontractors
13 posted on
11/06/2006 5:58:06 PM PST by
Ready4Freddy
("Everyone knows there's a difference between Muslims and terrorists. No one knows what it is, tho...)
To: Righty_McRight
Finally something the French government excells at:
How to zombify dead companies!
17 posted on
11/06/2006 6:16:14 PM PST by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
To: Righty_McRight
Before summer, Airbus will announce the end of the A380 program, after two primary customers select the new 747 instead and cancel their orders. Bank on it.
20 posted on
11/06/2006 6:41:28 PM PST by
Pukin Dog
(Being a Liberal is just a coping mechanism for low self esteem and/or bad parenting.)
To: Righty_McRight
"420 planes to break even instead of 270 as previously announced."
Wow! Time to play Taps yet?
22 posted on
11/06/2006 6:49:48 PM PST by
ryan71
(You can hear it on the coconut telegraph...)
To: Righty_McRight
Our local TV weather guy came on at the top of the 5 o'clock and said not to worry about the big Plane doing manuvers at a low altitude over Humboldt Bay. He said Boeing was testing some new plane and came here because the weather is bad in Seattle.
The photo he showed was a KLM clad behemoth and said they were around 3000 feet and to stop callinn 911!
I didn't see or hear it which is unusual for me
27 posted on
11/06/2006 8:11:39 PM PST by
tubebender
(Growing old is mandatory...Growing up is optional)
To: Righty_McRight
Even more Euro unemployment.
28 posted on
11/06/2006 8:31:35 PM PST by
razorback-bert
(I met Bill Clinton once but he didn’t really talk — he was hitting on my wife)
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