[aShepard]

Well Linda Dashole, not so fast with that pen to endorse your check.

[demsux]

A buddy of mine just landed a job with Boeing for this project. He's an engineer in St. Louis...

[demsux]

Don't get me wrong, LindaTom is/are evil people.

[Shermy]

It's "complicated" because the complexity hides the rip-off.

[MediaMole]

Could someone explain the Linda Dashle connection?

[Fixit]

There's an awful lot of DC-10's sitting in storage out in the desert.

Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper to buy them up & convert them to KC-10's or KDC-10's than it is going to be to lease (then give back, according to the original terms of the lease) a bunch of 767 T-T's?

[Nick Danger]

The government is always doing this, and it pisses me off. The government can already go onto the market and borrow at lower rates than anyone else. Why would they ever lease anything, unless the imputed interest rate was no higher than it is on T-bills? And I don't know how it could be, because Boeing can't borrow at that rate.

[Calvin Locke]

Too late. I think I heard that Tom n' Linda just bought new digs in DC for $1.9M. Maybe on Limbaugh earlier in the week.

[lelio]

Knowledgeable sources said recent negotiations had cut this cost by an unspecified sum from the $17 billion tentatively agreed
I'm not sure that is right, as this article says that the lease price is $17B for 6 years, with a $4B buyout price at the end. These planes are around $130M each, or $13B for all one hundred.