[PoisedWoman]

Tell it to Boeing, Jean.

[need_a_screen_name]

Be American, buy American, fly American!!!

[kellynla]

This is a form email. I received the exact email myself. And after the sacrifices that my father and many millions of other American fathers made for the liberation of France in WWI & WWII, I have a form response. Adieu, France!

[narby]

If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going.

[Banjoguy]

...I rec'd the identical reply to my e-mail compliant regarding the purchase of the Airbus A320.

[Willie Green]

Boeing is a Chicom company anyway.
There are, of course, some much smaller aircraft manufacturers left in the U.S. But in the long run, we should be developing high-speed rail and Maglev as an integral part of our transportation infrastructure.

[Jhoffa_]

They own a bunch of Airbus aircraft already. From a maintenance standpoint, it makes sense for them to order more of the same.

Further, I prefer the Airbus. It's more comfortable.

[jackbill]

It is my understanding that "discount" airlines like Jet Blue, Southwest, etc., are able to provide the low cost service and still make a profit, in part, because they restrict their airfleet to a single aircraft type. That makes sense from the point of view of maintenance and parts.

Jet Blue started out using the Airbus. Should they now dump it, just because of the French?

What some here seem to want Jet Blue to do is to dump a profit-making, customer satisfying, shareholder (mostly Americans?)satisfying business plan in order to stuff it to the French. Yes, that really makes sense.

Some people here on FR should really go back to school.

[rs79bm]

This customer committment person should get a raise. That's the biggest line of baloney I have ever heard.

[Nick Danger]

This could be fun to watch, depending on whether the contract price is expressed Dollars or Euros. Most people think that the value of the Dollar will shrink relative to the Euro, at least for the next few years.

If JetBlue got a good price, and it's in dollars, then they just locked in Airbus's lowest price on A320's. They will be able to go to Airbus and threaten them with actually buying one... unless Airbus pays them off to get out of the deal. Then they could turn around and buy Boeing jets with money they squeezed out of Airbus.

If the contract price is in Euros, they're screwed.

[snopercod]

Real Americans build their own airplanes and fly where and when they want.

[RightWhale]

The bedbug letter.

Could be worse.

[Mike4Freedom]

It really is pretty foolish to hurt yourself and eliminate a competitive seller because they took a stand that you disagreed with. You are all sounding like they attacked us.

I have seen this from the other end. I work for a company that makes components for commercial airliners. Our two biggest customers are, of course, Boeing and Airbus. I was shocked to hear one of our employees saying that we should refuse to sell to Airbus. I asked him if he was voluntering for the layoff that would result when we lost nearly half our sales volume.

Common sense says that you don't let political differences make you hurt yourself by eliminating customers or potential suppliers.

[RLK]

Uh, Boeing has laid off 25,000 of its commercial aircraft American workers and is having its planes built in sia.

[teletech]

I got the same "form" letter response. I knew it would be a waste of time to write them an email but it made me feel better. BOYCOTT JET BLUE!!

[_Jim]

I think you people need your heads examined by professionals.

Secondary to that, re-education from the ground up (what we used to call 'the basics') is called for.

Common sense as well as an understanding of basic economics seems to be completely MISSING from your brains - you're now resorting to throwing temper tantrums if 'the view' you happen to see at the moment doesn't fit your two-year-old-level education ... JUST LIKE THE LEFT.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

JetBlue