Nationalism runs amok on this forum again….a thread about a new FAL in the USA degenerates into a he said/she said as to why there is not a FAL in the UK. Sigh.

I’m wondering if this factory will enable further market penetration in the USA for Airbus? I would think the fact that the airplanes “are built here” would be a major sales pitch for Airbus to the big 3 or 4 U.S. airlines, which still have majority Boeing fleets, even though the percentage of American content probably won’t change measurably.

Also, I’m wondering about the location. Airbus chose to put the factory at the old military base in MOB (closed roughly 50 years ago). No doubt they got great tax breaks and they can expect a non-union workforce in Alabama, but the site is literally on the seashore in a hurricane prone area. I would think the storm surge from even a moderate storm would flood the factory and be very costly.