BANG BANG FOR BOEING

GOOD NEWS for Boeing as they grab a huge share of the new plane orders at Paris Air Show. Boeing itself seems shy about their huge success, and it is huge. As I posted here a while ago, Boeing is betting big that the huge Airbus is an unwanted product---a dinosaur--and that Boeing is producing a couple of planes capable of flying anywhere in the world non-stop. I linked to the original Boeing site story and the ins and outs of this huge bet against a completely government subsidized Airbus; implied in all this is that Airbus is willing to give their planes away in order to rid themselves of Boeing. The Boeing view of the monstrous EU 380 is:

The A380 is all about waiting. Waiting to board, waiting to connect, waiting to get your luggage, waiting to get to your destination.

This is a victory for the USA as well as for Boeing. And I am assuming that our government is helping Boeing out big time, perhaps through bloated defense spending. We cannot afford to lose business to a bunch of Frogs, Krauts, and Dutch Dope Fiends.