Posted on 05/06/2006 1:20:07 PM PDT by Icelander
Sadly, this would be consistant with a larger trend.
The Boeing-Airbus rivalry continues...
Nothing to worry about. Russia will end up buying Boeing.
Most of this is posturing, and Europe and Asia do a lot of posturing. In the end, the decision will either be made on business grounds, in which case Boeing will be selected, or political grounds, in which case Boeing will still be selected.
Nobody wants to be tied to a decision to buy Airbus for political reasons, only to have some of those planes crash and burn. If Airbus is to win the contract, they had better produce a lot of guarantees. The Boeing aircraft are still the most sound from a business vantage point.
They're pouting over what Cheney said about them.
land a 777 too far down a slick runway and the same thing would happen.
The Russian's should be embarrased to be buying an airbus crashliner instead of building their own.Airbus planes have had a bad safety record in the past year.
"This is a clear signal to the United States not to put too much pressure on Russia in WTO talks otherwise many lucrative contracts and privileges could go to the Europeans,"
Ha! They're the losers, not us. Which would you rather fly in - A Boeing or an Airbus?
"They're the losers, not us. Which would you rather fly in - A Boeing or an Airbus?"
Boeing here, but I'd take either one over an Ilyushin or Tupolev! /scary Soviet-era junk.
You are wrong. The 777 would not handle the same way as an AB.
At present Boeing is out discounting Airbus and the 777 and 787 are very competitive. But when Boeing isn't discounting heavily they are usually not very competitive. Airline A1 might buy a dozen 777's today on very agreeable terms. But in a few years should they decide they need more - they can't count on Boeing to maintain their discounted pricing at that time, unless they buy options - but you can only buy options so far into the future.
If at that time Boeing is asking $200,000,000 each and offering undesirable delivery slots, you are stuck. You either end up buying planes you can't afford (which is what the majors did in the late 90's) or you end up going elsewhere and breaking down a common fleet.
With Airbus, you can pretty much count on pricing and support consistency for the life of the fleet.
A good public example is when Frontier decided to buy more 737's - the terms Boeing brought to the table in terms of pricing and delivery were not worthy of serious consideration. Boeing said take it or leave it... and guess what they did.
Boeing will swing from extreme to extreme, Airbus is pretty consistent. I will take consistency.
that had nothing to do with airbus per se..also everyone walked away from that crash
Good we dont want our superior planes(Boeing)which has a much longer range used for Russian awacs.
The issue here was not the airplane... it was the ravine and the pilot who should have gone around.
Aerofloat is one of the most unsafe airlines in the world (some turd world country may have them beat, but I don't know which one). It is only apporpriate that they buy the most unsafe aircraft to go with their reputation.
If the dems had their way Boeing would go out of business
it is not the most unsafe airplane in the world. get your facts straight:
http://www.geocities.com/khlim777_my/ashowsafe1.htm#Which%20is%20the%20safest%20airplane?
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