Airbus plant in USA

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WASHINGTON - The parent company of European aircraft maker Airbus, seeking to better compete with Boeing for a lucrative Air Force contract to build military refueling tankers, announced Wednesday it has selected Mobile, Ala., over three other Southern sites for a $600 million factory.


Airbus seems to be helping the US economy....right guys ?

 

[jws717]

IT would help jobs in that part of the country, but the profits would be going to the euro folks. I also think that airbus would also consider building a plant here because it will be cheaper, labor/ resouces. They dont care to help our economy.

 

[720degpersec]

IT would help jobs in that part of the country, but the profits would be going to the euro folks. I also think that airbus would also consider building a plant here because it will be cheaper, labor/ resouces. They dont care to help our economy.

Whining again ? I don't know of any Boeing plants in Europe...

 

[Guitar Guy]

Whining again ? I don't know of any Boeing plants in Europe...

But then again, there is a lot of European content in Boeing aircraft. Every current-generation 737 has CFM engines which are partly the handiwork of SNECMA of France. Rolls-Royce engines are European, too, and they are found on 757's, 767's, 747's and 777's.

 

[Hose A. Jiminez]

Whining again ? I don't know of any Boeing plants in Europe...

Doesn't sound like whining to me, just that he may have a deeper understanding of how an AirBus factory in the U.S. will and will not help the economy than you do.

 

[720degpersec]

Doesn't sound like whining to me, just that he may have a deeper understanding of how an AirBus factory in the U.S. will and will not help the economy than you do.

Ok, first, a plant in Mobile will employ a majority of US employees. I don't hear GM hiring a lot do you ?

Second, Airbus spends $5.5 billion with US suppliers. That is 40 percent of the company's worldwide procurement.

A deeper understanding than I do, right ?

 

[Hose A. Jiminez]

A deeper understanding than I do, right ?

Right... and once again, it didnt sound like whining.

 

[Metro752]

Airbus Tankers, hahahaha

 

[pipejockey]

It will be a sad day, and one that will go down in infamy if our military sinks so low as to purchase from airbus and not our own Boeing.

Fly Boeing Jets!!!

 

[xrated]

Airbus Tankers, hahahaha

Agusta/Westland Helicopter flying the President, hahahahaha! Oooops,
its no joke, it happened.

 

[Jim Smyth]

2 words come to my mind................


PPHHUUCCKK AIRBUS!

 

[Mr Hat]

Prehaps this is why......
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/229451_airbuilt22.html

 

[Biatch5]

Airbus Tankers, hahahaha

Ya see Fromage, Saucisse, & La Resistance DID know what they were talking about.

AND THEY GOT BANNED FOR IT TOO

 

[ironwedge]

Prehaps this is why......
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/229451_airbuilt22.html

"All of the airlines are probably already in compliance," Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Les Dorr said yesterday in Washington. The agency estimated it would cost carriers $522,000 to print stickers with the location where planes were "finally assembled" and place them on the placards in 6,559 aircraft.

Holy Crap, an average of $75 per aircraft to put a flippin' decal on a safety card. Although I'd bet that Airbus would come out ahead even if they paid double that for the entire world's fleet of aircraft. I'm guessing there might be another reason they want to build jets in Alabama.

The downward spiral tightens...

 

[B6Driver]

60% of the brand new Boeing 787 will be built overseas.

 

[G4G5]

Where did you pull that number out of?

The two most costly things on an aircraft are engines and avionics, they are both made in the USA.

Are you saying 60% of the rivits come from outside the USA?

 

[rvsm410]

Melboune Florida was on the final 4 list until yesterday..it looks like the plant will be in Mobile, they have other contracts and manufacturing there for the coast guard....

 

[B6Driver]

Great to see that even though you're furloughed from AA, the chip on your shoulder lives on.

http://www.netcomposites.com/news.asp?3022
http://www.tenlinks.com/NEWS/PR/DASSAULT/061305_boeing.htm
http://forum.sbac.co.uk/supplychain/SupplyTree.asp?Proj=27


Just to name a few sites. I previously read the approx. 60% figure in Av. Week & Space Tech. We live in a global market where all the lines are starting to blend.