Good article. Boeing was acting in bad faith. Ripping off the taxpayers. Shame on them.
Airbus hasnt acted in good faith ever..
Bid rigging is SOP.. Socialism is a rotten barrel.. ripped off by your countrymen or
ripped off by a foreigner.. I'll take the thief I'm related to..
That doesn’t matter to the so called conservative republicans who know treat defense spending as public works program.
I am bothered, though, by the behavior of congress in this. It takes little more than a contract and a calculator to figure out what the planes will actually cost. X payments of Y dollars. XY = how much money the planes will cost. Divide that by the number of planes and you know what you are about to pay for each one. If this is more than the planes cost, it is easy to see how much more, and if the financing is worthwhile. Pilots seem to like the Airbus plane, and the cost is good, but this whole thing stinks.
Was it really neccessary to prosecute people for offering a selling price, even if it was high? Boeing is a business, not a charity. If the offer was not good, congress could have easily said so.