Just What is Everyone Bitching About? Boeing's as International as Airbus

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  alekp03/14/08 Report as spam
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  Boeing vs. Airbus

  I applaud your objectivity. Hope more people share the same attitude, especially in the States.

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  guptalk@...03/14/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Just What is Everyone Bitching About? Boeing's as International as Airbus

  Why does Boeing feel entitled to the contract? Was their product superior? Was their cost model better? Didn't they rig the bidding last time? If they want to compete, then they need to compete and be the best in the world. They have that capacity.

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  jockog303/14/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Just What is Everyone Bitching About? Boeing's as International as Airbus

  Apparently there were five criteria by which the two jets were compared. Airbus won ALL FIVE. I think one of these criteria was price. Aren't we all (taxpayers) better off having to pay a little less for a little more?

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  bobfox_sg@...03/14/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Just What is Everyone Bitching About? Boeing's as International as Airbus

  The article over symplifies the situation. For many years (including for the 777), Boeing has outsourced major components wiht its core skills being final assembly, cockpit and systems integration. One driver for this is offsets and other programs which give it market access. Boeing's domination to date of the Japanese market would not have been possible were MHI not to have contributed so much to Boeing aircraft.

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  addicted2speed03/17/08 Report as spam
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  Resting on Assumptions

  From what I understand, I think the fault lies with Boeing in assuming that nationalism in military contracts would automatically entitle them the contract, even if their product was inferior and included no innovation.
  
  It sounds a bit like whining to me. They lost the contract due to better product from Grumman/Airbus, specifically search on "Refuelling Boom" for a good example... they're not happy about it, so they file an appeal.