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Home Front Economy
Strong euro causes Airbus, VW to mull opening US factories
2007-12-04
Oh dear Lord, Airbus is dangling jobs in exchange for winning a US military plane contract.

Saints preserve us .....
Airbus has been lusting after that air tanker contract for a long time. Interesting issue, though: Boeing has shut down the 767 assembly line, as I recall, and that was the airframe they were going to use for their version of the tanker. Makes you wonder which airframe they'll choose now.
Posted by:Seafarious

#6  ICO the USAF, it'll be a long time comin' between Darlene Druyun and now, RiecherÂ’s tragic and unecessary suicide (aren't most of them?) AF has serious acquisition mgt problems...

However...It does seem, that with a bit of "creativity" they "might" just find a way to restore their self-confidence and our faith in them...
Posted by: Leonard Plynth Garnell   2007-12-04 21:59  

#5  Okay, lessirree, the WORLD's GDP via today's Net news is reportedly US$55.0Trilyuhn, of which the USA controls aproxi 25% - BUT-T-T, various Perts including the UNO WORLD BANK had prev calc that the COMBINED US NATIONAL-GLOBAL GDP was approxi anywhere bwtn US$300T-US$900T already???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-12-04 21:15  

#4  Good Lord almighty: manufacturing jobs in the US.
Posted by: eLarson   2007-12-04 20:37  

#3  Well, that's cool. We've gotten to the point where other countries are outsourcing their work to the US.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2007-12-04 15:19  

#2  Sea; I think BCAC has not yet shut down the 767 line, but has slowed work until tanker contract is decided. this is to prevent / delay dismantling of tooling and allows them to divert workers to the 787 'travel work' side of the house. i expect that if Airbust wins the tanker contract (whenever the USAF decides to get off their butt and award same) the 767 work will accelerate to fill all orders and free up floor space for the Dreamliner.
Posted by: USN,Ret.   2007-12-04 13:17  

#1  Can't wait to watch American and european unions fight over turf...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2007-12-04 09:55  

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