[Brian Allen]

<< I got a similar response. I will NOT be flying JetBlue.

Hell no, me either! >>

Me too.

Airlines "buy" [And/or lease] the essentially French Airbus products because EURO-peon taxpayers effectively subsidise the design and manufacture of every aircraft and further subsidise their "sale" by way of massive EURO-peon Neo-Soviet [AKA "EU"] satellite-state guarantees for the finance of every end-user's "purchase."

Also, every model of Boeing is a vastly superior product when compared, when there is one -- to the "equivilent" airbus and Airbus, by lowering the requirements for operating standards among the operators to whom it is willing to sell, has contributed hugely to international aviation's deteriorating standards -- and then there are AB's flight systems' computers .....

And the AB-280 -- which will quite likely eat the AB co-operative!

Thanks all the same but I will stick with Mr Boeing's and Mr Douglas's and Mr McDonnell's and Mr Lockheed's et al's heirs and successors!

Best ones -- Brian

[texas_fool]

I will NOT be flying JetBlue

Thats for sure. Most of these posters don't know haw badly Beoing has been hurt by Airbus and no it's not fair trade but then it never has been with most of our trading partners.

Airbus is getting 100% of their R&D paid for by the Government with most comming from the French. Airbus Aircraft are assembled in France from components made primarily in Britain and Spain(Landing Gear).