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Originally Posted by L-Pink
Aircraft design and production is NOT an industry where decision by committee will work. Also the French can't even build cars.
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Originally Posted by Jenny S.
Bull, Airbus isn't a solely french company, it's a Euroean company. Last year they sold a considerable amount of airplanes. Once you have flown over a million miles in airliners, like I did, you'd probably pick the quiet Airbuses over a rattling 757 with fucked up AC any day.
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Jenny, I assume you are responding to me. First I never criticized any Airbus product. Their current/old products were designed and developed in simpler times.
The problems facing Airbus now will not be worked out and many are betting Airbus will be sold or liquidated. Here is a company owned by different corporations from various countries. Different governments, and Daimler-Chrysler. Their board of directors are French dominated, and serious insider trading lawsuits by shareholders are under investigation.
And don't tell me Daimler executives like being overruled by a country that makes Peugeots ......