[Zakeet]

It's official. Airbus is going to whip Boeing, and they are going to do this without any more government subsidies, and they are going to keep the unions happy as they cut wages, and the stock market believes every word.

[Axlrose]

LOL stupid euros.

It'll take them twice as long at 5 times the cost to produce something half as good as an AMERICAN airplane.

Who cares about some eurotrash airplane.

[avacado]

A five-humped flying camel... Thanks, but no thanks. I'll fly BOEING.

[COEXERJ145]

CEO Louis Gallois told a news conference that the A350 will be funded through the savings generated by a painful cost-cutting plan, from cash flow and from Airbus' partners.

CEO Louis Gallois told a news conference that the A350 will be funded through the savings generated by a painful cost-cutting plan, from cash flow and from Airbus' partners billion of European tax dollars.

There fixed it.

[Unmarked Package]

As of now, I believe Boeing has 455 orders for the 787 and Airbus only has a letter of intent from China for 20 A350XWB planes. The A350XWB will be available in 2012, four years after the first scheduled 787 delivery. This is how Airbus and the socialist European nations define "competing with Boeing"!?

[Yo-Yo]

EADS approved the A350 plan on Friday. No timetable was released, and it remained unclear where the plane will be made.

No timetable? So the official launch just means the beginning of real engineering studies.

The only thing that can possibly "save" Airbus is that all of Boeing's 787 production slots are sold out until right around the time that Airbus can get the A350 out the door, so now they're competing head to head for business down the road anyway.

Aerospace Ping to Paleo.

[stinkerpot65]

I wouldn't dance on the Airbus grave too much. If Boeing gets back in a monopoly position it will be another 40 years before we see any innovation. Without Airbus, there would be no 787, or the lower and more comfortable travel that will result.