If it ain’t Boeing,I ain’t going.Then you stay at home - this is no fuss - to watch the take-off of an Airbus.Best regards from good old Europe ;-)
Gee...I'm trying to think of a single spot on earth that's even slightly worth visiting that one cannot easily reach on a 747,or a 777,or...in a few years...in one of the eight hundred or so 787's that have already been ordered by airlines the world over.
And I can't think of a single one.
America would be better advised to design products that are more able to compete on world markets. Boeing is one of the very few US-companies that is trying to do so with some success. Nevertheless the trade deficit of the US is on a all time high. You Americans earn too little to pay for the amplitude of your consumption.
To us Europeans it is pitiable to watch you Americans being in such a huff just because you lost your long time monopoly in civil aircrafts. You should be happy about this fact because if there would be no competition on this market there could be no innovation either. Without the A 380 the "Dream-liner" of Boeing would have never been designed. Apart of Airbus and Boeing I do not want to be forced to use a technologically outdated aircraft of a monopolist. Such monopolies can not be maintained in a globalized world anyway. I am quite sure that in the next decades the West has to deal with modern and competitive passenger jets from Russia and China.