It doesn’t make much sense. Airbus has always been a government subsidized dog of an airplane, whose only real purpose is to provide more jobs and more national pride for the European consortium who make it.
What purpose would it serve if they made them here? Would they still plan to subsidize them to give Americans jobs? Or do they plan to fly in thousands of African Muslims like Tyson, to work on the cheap?
The fairy tale of Airbus beeing a socialistic plane factory only exists on freep.
They get some of their doe from the states - therefore they got to be nice to those who give them doe. No difference between boeing and airbus here - only this time VW and aibus will be getting some doe from an american state while Boeing got it from the japs for getting the key parts made of CFC from them.
Dollar high = consume in US production abroad
Euro high = consume in the EU production abroad
It’s a cycle.
Here is the shareholding breakdown for Airbus:
As of 3 July 2007 41.63% of EADS stock is publicly traded on six European stock exchanges, while the remaining 58.37% is owned by a “Contractural Partnership”. The latter is owned by SOGEADE (27.38%), Daimler AG (22.41%), SEPI (5.46%) and Dubai Holding (3.12%).[19] SOGEADE is owned by the French State and Lagardère, while SEPI is a Spanish state holding company. France also owns 0.06% of publicly traded stock.