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The plane is trouncing rival Airbus, whose competing A350 XWB (extra wide body) has been bedeviled by design changes. The European plane maker conceded that the day -- 7/8/07 in U.S. date shorthand -- belonged to Boeing.
"Even if tomorrow Airbus will get back to the business of competing vigorously, today is Boeing's day -- a day to celebrate the 787," Airbus chief executive Louis Gallois wrote in a letter to Boeing CEO Jim McNerney in a letter made public by Airbus on Sunday.
news.yahoo.com...
The plane is trouncing rival Airbus, whose competing A350 XWB (extra wide body) has been bedeviled by design changes. The European plane maker conceded that the day -- 7/8/07 in U.S. date shorthand -- belonged to Boeing.
"Even if tomorrow Airbus will get back to the business of competing vigorously, today is Boeing's day -- a day to celebrate the 787," Airbus chief executive Louis Gallois wrote in a letter to Boeing CEO Jim McNerney in a letter made public by Airbus on Sunday.
news.yahoo.com...
Originally posted by RandomThought
Great, so now when on of those crashes we will lose 5 times the amount of people of a regular plane.
Originally posted by waynos
Lovely to see this plane completed, it is the prettiest looking plane since the Comet 1 imho.
Originally posted by waynos
Fred, I'm a bit confused by the line 'Airbus takes the high road'. Where I come from to take the high road means to quit, clearly this cannot be what you meant so do you mind explaining to silly old me? Ta.
Originally posted by firepilot
Well Airbus has had to eat crow regarding the 787, so to speak, so its about time they said something nice. Their people trashed the whole 787 concept for years in public, while Boeing was much more gracious towards the A380.
Someone here a while back, posted a list of quotes from Airbus, where they continually trashed the 787.
it was interesting how they had to keep changing their talking points, since the 787 started getting lots of sales.
I would like to see proof of Boeing trying to get the A380 banned from the US.
Whenever i have seen the Boeing people mention the A380, they have said that sure, it will have its place, but that they think the future of aviation travel favors the 787 idea and more point to point flying.