Airbus Is Said to Plan a Factory in Alabama

[Mackie]

Airbus Is Said to Plan a Factory in Alabama

PARIS — Airbus, the European plane maker, plans to build its first assembly line in the United States in Mobile, Ala., in an aggressive foray into the world’s largest market for single-aisle airplanes, people with knowledge of the plan said on Wednesday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/bu...-us-plant.html

[Steak-Sauce]

Ha! Can't wait for the shytestorm to begin. This will be fun to watch.

[IconOfEvi]

Assembly plant

So they can say 'hurrr we make stuff in America too!'

[C.Puffs]

Assembly plant

So they can say 'hurrr we make stuff in America too!'

I wonder if it'll be a union plant or non.

[Mackie]

Assembly plant

So they can say 'hurrr we make stuff in America too!'

Since Boeing is "Made in USA"?

http://articles.businessinsider.com/...airplane-parts

[Chulo]

Its a Right to Work state, a good place to start

[vryhpyammoadded]

Excellent news! Let’s get more people employed with good paying, high skill positions building things. Is Airbus partnering with any indigenous aerospace or is this a straight up Airbus thing? Alabama is a great choice for this.

[tercio67]

In anticipation of their competitors' announcement, Boeing issued a statement that questions the actual employment benefit of having Airbus building aircraft on US soil.


"No matter how many [jobs] are created, the numbers pale in comparison to the thousands of US jobs destroyed by illegal subsidies," Boeing says.

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/art...labama-373597/

[Chimera]

"No matter how many [jobs] are created, the numbers pale in comparison to the thousands of US jobs destroyed by illegal subsidies," Boeing says.

They mean these?

WTO confirms Boeing subsidies illegal http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17345903

[happyslapper]

Shrewd.

Airbus needs the political penetration in the US. It already produces a product which is often (perhaps usually) superior to offering from Boeing. The tanker debacle being the obvious example of the need to play a different card.

[Martel]

They mean these?

WTO confirms Boeing subsidies illegal http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17345903

That's the usual Boeing BS, they keep repeating this like a mantra.

[C.Puffs]

Shrewd.

Airbus needs the political penetration in the US. It already produces a product which is often (perhaps usually) superior to offering from Boeing.

Yeah that A380 is a real winner. I wonder when we'll see the wings come off one.

[Steak-Sauce]

Why do you think happyslapper meant the A380?

[C.Puffs]

Why do you think happyslapper meant the A380?

A380 is an Airbus product.

[tercio67]

Yeah that A380 is a real winner. I wonder when we'll see the wings come off one.

Yup, rather 'no jobs in the USA' than competition for Boeing in the 'made in the USA' market.
(they plan to build the A320 there btw)