Posted on 11/23/2004 8:28:57 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
PARIS/TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - Airbus is eager to launch an aircraft to rival Boeing Co.'s efficient new 7E7 passenger jet and hopes to make an announcement by the end of the year, the European planemaker said on Tuesday. Airbus Chief Executive Noel Forgeard has said the planemaker could spend as much as 4 billion euros to build a challenger to the 7E7, which will seat as many as 300 people in three versions and offer airlines lower operating costs.
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boeing is on its a** over the scandel with the price fixing of government contracts, on several fronts....
Airbus will do well... as long as the governments of Europe continue to subsidize it.
No doubt they have had more than their share of issues but the stock has been on the rise:
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/intchart.asp?symb=BA&sid=874&siteid=mktw
a fool and his money is soon parted...
Is this a Dilbert cartoon? Airbus barely has a napkin sketch of the A350, just a bunch of ethereal promises, and prospective customers are lining up.
Wasn't the Airbus superduper double decker jumbo jet supposed to put boeing out of business?
Wasn't Airbus laughing at boeing for going with the 7E7 instead of copying Airbus's superior product wisdom?
Boeing's internal problems hopefully have been eradicated. It is a strong company.
and so it goes in that business..... boeing makes and annimation and they line like sheep at wall street.... boeing has dumped its manufacturing business as it heart.... it has moved into the software company business.... i would guess theat manufacturing of the air crafts will eventually move off shore... currently a lot, dont know the real no., of the aircraft built by boeing are made in japan at mhi, they have a very close relation ship including a fiber optic cable directly to and from each other... so it is not all it seems to be//
Boeing, too, shows they can still effectively compete with Airbus, a company sponsored and subsidized by an international consortum of countries.
Airbus makes damned fine airplanes...so long as the tailfins stay attached.
....And the computer works.
I have an interesting video of an Airbus crashing into the trees at the end of the runway because the computer wouldn't let the pilot fly the airplane.
I remember the incident. Then there was the famous French economy measure of putting the guidance software for the Ariane IV into the Ariane V, even though it was a completely different vehicle...quite spectacular.
it happened at an airshow, if memory serves. it was amazing that airbus didn't go out of business right then and there.
there about to be disbard from government contracts.... they have many other problems in the air force and the intelligence agencies... with their products failing not preforming or just not working at all...... if you buy you will lose... they have abandoned their roots of manufacturing for software and information ....... does any one any where think a defense contractor can play in the software world ... for any reason...
strategic and tactial mistakes pleague them... and their managment and their managments judgement...
That was the conclusion that I came to when I worked for them. They had 19 vice-presidents at the time, 13 of which were ENGINEERING vice-presidents! No company needs that kind of overhead
The joke we had at the time was that Boeing was going to sponsor an unlimited hydroplane racing boat named "Miss-Management!"
or miss Darlene
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