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Let's see, Airbus also employs Spainards, Italians and Brits. Oh yeah, and Airbus is the largest buyer of GE and Pratt Whitney engines, made in America and employing thousands of Americans.

As a very frequent flier, I can tell you that Airbus is superior in every way to Boeing's notoriously narrow, passenger squeezing interiors. Airbus' safety record is actually better than Boeing's, although they are very close and fine points can be argued either way.

BTW, McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed frequently worked around the minimum operating standard rules in the past. Airbus wasn't the first and Boeing is following down the path.

So boycott if you want. Squeeze yourself into a skinny Boeing seat. God forbid you find yourself in the famous "middle seat" in the 5 seat center section of a 777. You wake in the middle of the Atlantic with race horses bladder and have to wake up or climb over at least two people to escape.

Boycott's can be effective when targeting products that are completely French. Boycotting Airbus is silly. Focus on wholly-owned French companies, like Accor. Avoid travel to France. Don't hurt American workers, or our allies workers, with a pointless boycott. FOCUS ON THE FRENCH.

<< .... As a very frequent flier ..... >>

Appears you have the advantage of me there, so I will defer to your Very Frequent Flier status.

I have only a very-limited and limiting Aviation Experience.

Last time I looked in my logbook my flying experience amounted to only a paltry twenty-nine thousand six hundred Command Hours in a logged total time approaching 34,000 hours and a pilot and PAX time equivilent to around 770 global circumnavigations.

[And I NEVER! fly Coach.]

Cordially -- Brian

Geez Louise, our Government has been busy for the last 30 or so years enabling the dismantling and export of our manufacturing base, so I'm not too upset that some Capitol Hill wonk has his panties in a twist over some airline buying French planes.