Politics and the Airbus

[kwijybo]

Deal

How does flying the Bus 'support the French'? I is a pilot. I don't know much about accounting practices, or all that fancy college stuff, but what about all those products in your house made in "China". Are you 'supporting' that country? Or are the French worse? Or is that just for now, but tomorrow it will be all right.

So let me get this straight, if it means seeing your family for a holiday or not flying on an airbus, you will pass on the ride. Yeah, sure you will.

I think the French suck, but **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED**, I don't yell at the TV when the news is on about how dumb they are- they can't hear you. I figured I would just stop eating french fries, and French bread.

The Scarlet letter is from a book where....ahh never mind.

 

[FoxThree]

Re: Deal

The Scarlet letter is from a book where....ahh never mind.

If you want the "A" to stand for "adultery" as it did for Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," that's OK with me.

My point is with Jacques Chirac trying to thwart our every effort to protect ourselves as a nation and our government reporting the largest trade deficit in history, $432.5 billion, for 2002, I don't see supporting the French economy to the tune of $1.5 billion when it's our society that needs the capital investment and jobs. The people you bought your airplanes from don't even like you.

 

[kwijybo]

now that you put it that way

Geeze, I didn't see it that way. Wait, why stop at the French, the Germans are right there with them. Lets get rid of all our BMW's and Mercedes, after all American cars ARE better, and they don't like us either. Oh yeah, the Japanese don't like us either. I have seen them protest the US up close and personal several times, so, lets picket all Toyota, Honda and Mitusbishi cars (hey, they built the Zero's in WWII didn't they). After all America needs capital investments and jobs. Just strap a flag on it and I will buy it.

Canadian government officials called Bush and idiot, so they don't like us so lets boycott, ummm hockey.

Puerto Ricans don't like us (see Vieques), so lets boycott their rum.

Tell me where to stop. Why limit yourself just to the French. You have so many people to boycott that don't like us right now. Lets be equal opportunity here.

Perhaps you should get in a way back machine and see why my airline made such a commitment to Airbus in the first place. Again, I is just a pilot, but a good deal is a good deal and there wasn't much love from the Boeing people when JB came calling from what I understand.

Again I will repeat for clarification- the cheese eating surrender monkeys still suck.

Fox 3, here is a pic to get your dander up just a bit. As I posted earlier, all politics are local, and follow the money to see why Chirac is so opposed to the war. This may be a clue....

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/toptease_4.html

 

[FL510GV]

Boeing flies French?

I believe that Boeing's Corp. flight dept has Falcons. So does Ford and many others... so much for buying "made in the USA".

 

[GVFlyer]

Re: Boeing flies French?

I believe that Boeing's Corp. flight dept has Falcons. So does Ford and many others... so much for buying "made in the USA".

Boeing flys Challengers.

Ford flys whatever the incumbent CEO wants:

Don Peterson bought GIII's

Harold Poling Bought Falcons

Sir Alex Trottman bought G-IV's (the Director of Aviation replaced them with Falcons and was retired for it)

Jacques Nassar bought 5 GV's

William Clay Ford, Jr. is selling the GV's and replacing them with a mix of 900's and 2000's.

Go figure.

GV

 

[120% Torque]

The company believes that it can now purchase Airbus A319 aircraft under the Airbus contract at a price a third per seat below the price for the Boeing 737- 700 aircraft delivered to it under the Boeing contract in August 2002

Airbus has agreed to provide extensive pre-delivery and ongoing support relating to the introduction of the Airbus A319 aircraft into easyJet's fleet

The total list price for 120 new A319 aircraft would be $5.3 billion. However, the Company has been granted very substantial price concessions by Airbus and the selected engine manufacturer.

http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030225/0340000386_1.html

 

[cocknbull]

I say buy Airbus. Airbus is backed buy socialists governments. How do you think Airbus can offer Delta 3 A318 for the price of 1. All this does is suck money out of their tax payers wallets and into a inferior product at a lost. This screws the French taxpayer twice. Once because they have less money in there pocket to feed the french economy and two they are indirectly supporting a huge government mess. Eventually if we buy enough Airbuses at cheap prices they will go away forever. The French government, like their precious Airbus, suffer from the Napoleon complex. They always have and always will be inferior.

Someone needs to tell the Germans they don't have to kiss france's Bu++ anymore. WW2 was over 50 years ago. Grow some balls again.