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1 FaverShareViewed: 2 TimesQuoted: Stonecipher has told a few people privately that he considered sacking Mulally, but his comment to Newhouse is the first time that Stonecipher has acknowledged for the record the deep divide that he and Mulally apparently had back in 2004, when Boeing was getting its clock cleaned by Airbus
Really scary attempted landing of an A320 when the crosswind exceeded the capabilities of the plane (and pilot).
1 FaverShareViewed: 25 TimesIt is hard to understand why the Air Force would go with a non-American company.
1 FaverShareViewed: 10 TimesQuoted: Boeing's loss of a $40bn US military contract to a group including Europe's Airbus draws angry protests.
1 FaverShareViewed: 1 TimeQuoted: in order for the A380 program to break even, it had to sell 420 of the aircraft, as opposed to the 270 originally planed. So far, the Franco-German company has received 159 orders for the double-decker planes
Quoted: NEW YORK (AP) - Emirates, a small but increasingly influential airline, has jet maker Boeing Co. jockeying with rival Airbus SAS for a multibillion-dollar deal.
Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, chairman of Dubai-based Emirates, is on a shopping spree for the industry's newest planes. He recently spent two days in Seattle, where Chicago-based Boeing builds most of its jets. He arrived there after a two-day stay in Toulouse, France -- the headquarters of rival Airbus.
1 FaverShareViewed: 3 Timesoh give me a fucking break, airbus. Leahy is always mouthing off about the 787 and what Boeing's doing.
Quoted: "I prefer to talk about my product," he said, "I don't like when my competitor is talking about my product."
"What Jim McNerney said is wrong," Gallois said. "It's completely unfair to say that."
2 FaversShareViewed: 6 Timesmehhhhhhhhh.
1 FaverShareViewed: 11 TimesQuoted: "We have a bit of a game-changing airplane, but it's up to you to decide," John Leahy, the Airbus sales chief and master pitchman, said ...
1 FaverShareViewed: 8 TimesQuoted: Buckle your seat belts: Airbus, the French-German champion of European industry, is headed for a breakup.
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