Our government has lost its collective brain.
Why in Hades would they want to take any move that weakens our own airline industry and strengthens Airbus?
Especially by a scheme that sends our tax dollars to Europe and creates more high paying industrial jobs there?
Haven't they been paying attention to concerns about the loss of manufacturing jobs in the USA?
I guess they figure the trade deficit isn’t yet high enough and the value of the dollar isn’t yet low enough to satisfy our European antagonists.
Maybe they just figure unemployment in the US isn't high enough yet.
Or perhaps they just hope that this will get the Europeans to like us more.
AHHHRRRGGGGG!!!!!!!
These people shouldn't be trusted running a McDonalds, let alone the US government.
Boeing had this one in the bag, but they got greedy.
"The tanker deal collapsed in 2004 when it was learned that the Air Force's second-ranking acquisition official, Darleen Druyun, had negotiated an executive-level job with Boeing Chief Financial Officer Michael Sears during the tanker contract talks. Both were fired and landed in prison.
"The procurement scandal rocked Boeing. Phil Condit, Boeing's chairman and chief executive at the time, resigned and Boeing's reputation in Congress was seriously damaged."
That's just on the individual level... Anyway, the new plane will be converted and or built in Mobile. My guess is that after folks wound up fired and in jail, this decision will be completely transparent (as much as any military procurement can be so).
McDonald’s is one of the best run companies, and one of the nimblest, in the world.
Why would you wish this clown car on them?
With the dollar dropping like it is the cost of the plane if negotiated in euros will be drastically higher also. We will have to ship out a lot more cash to the Europeans, this on top of the Sikorsky loss of the President’s chopper is an insult to us all.
I’m sure Boeing would have partnered with China. Is that any better?
Today the Dollar to Euro is 0.6592.