“The comparable Boeing airframe will get shut down. It will result in lost jobs on the west coast and it will result in lost income multiplier for the United States because the Boeing airframe had many more components made and assembled in the United States than the Airbus airframe does.”
1.) The 767 line was being shut down anyways in order to build the 787 “Dreamliner”
2.) Boeing said that the employees would be transferred to other production lines within the company IE NO JOBS LOST.
3.) Check your facts since most of Boeing’s parts are made overseas in places like china and are shipped to Boeing for assembly.
4.) Boeing only had 8 companies on board for the tanker program. EADS on the other hand has over 230 AMERICAN companies on the tanker program making items such as the wings, engines, landing gear, refueling equipment, avionics, etc.
You obviously don’t work at Boeing, sally.
1) The 767 line obviously was still open. It was low risk, easily engineered, and viable to meet what was billed as the requested mission and performance parameters.
2) Otherwise, the 777, as large as the Airbus model, and as expensive would have been sent for consideration.
2) Instead the proposal and all the signals asked for the price and performance of the 767.
3) And —> EADS/Airbus/Europe signaled in 2007 that they could not meet the competitive pricing of Boeing and that they would likely not even bid.
http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2007/01/22/afx3348605.html
4) And what changed was a reward to Britain and France by Bush to build large components like the wings of the airframe and what changed was a reward to crony politicians.
5) So now taxpayers will foot the bill for Airbus to get guaranteed sales, to lower their capex requirements, to build a plant at getter synergy for not merely the military aspect but also the commercial line of freighter airframes. We just gave competitive advantage to a subsidized European company against Boeing.
6) Shelby got on cable news and said that Boeing presented an inferior product—a partisan politician trashed a US company for a net lose in jobs and for Airbus. The results of the bidding process calling Boeing “high risk” and missing the performance requirements was nonsense. Boeing had the 777 tanker. American engineering and manufacturing and logistics is the best in the world! So check your facts.