Posted on 06/23/2006 1:01:57 PM PDT by Red Badger
All right, what's the story? Is that plane flying or is it by far the world's largest plane, sitting in a cornfield?
Actually the Russians would have a larger plane sitting in the Corn field.
On a different tangent, I believe Noel Foregeaurd the french EADS co-exexutive who SOLD shares just weeks before the A380's problems became public and the stock tanked, is also one of Jacque Iraqs and DeVillagepinheads butt budy's involved in the dirty tricks scandal against Sarkosky. Since french politics, crime and malfeasance demand that he be removed ASAP, the french are demanding that the apparently unblemished German co executive, be fired also, to assuage french pride. france does soooo bite wieners!
Nice writeup (post) but, EADS/Airbus will never cancel the A380. They have too many signed contracts. Wioth Govts (France Germnay etc.), giving free Loans that only have to be paid back if the plane turns a profit they (Airbus) can aford to loose money just for the sake of presitge.
What you say is - So true !!
You're singing to the choir.
Do you really think they will let Airbus sink?
No. Of course not, they don't know how to stop cheating...which they don't even regard as such. Hence it is time to force them to grow up...and tariff them appropriately. A tariff at least as large as their 30% subsidy.
And for good measure, our tariff would be slapped on any other countries goods if they don't reciprocate...and tariff AirBus for its violations likewise. The EU played hardball on steel...even though we were in the rightabout state-subsidized dumping...its time for us to play hardball because they are so, so far into the wrong. We need to pull out all the stops. Either the WTO actually permits us to tariff them...or we can essentially pull out now. End of WTO. And end of AirBus. Either way. They might try to save it...but an all-out trade war means the end.
I doubt this effects those already under contract for these planes, and since they are having significant production delays, I doubt there will be a lot of new purchases in the short term, so this seems like a rather insignificant item to me.
The delays are a very significant item, and Airbus's inflexible labor situation making it very difficult for them to overcome problems that result in such delays is a very significant issue.
List prices are really only a starting point for negotiation. They are part of the games marketing people play. I guess my engineering background tends to lead me to look past those things and look at the products, their real features (not fluff), and their ability to actually deliver those products. It's their shortcomings in those areas that make me thing Airbus is in trouble.
Straight out of Atlas Shrugged.
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