Well,what short memories some folk have……not that we’ve ever seen any “childish,petulant ” behavior from dear ol’ Boeing! Witness the the fairly recent Boeing press releases from the aforementioned company that were posted on this very forum! The truth is here that technically the Airbus fleet is in MOST respects technically superior to the Boeing equivelent, there can surely be no argument on that if we are being truly objective. It is only with the arrival of the 777 that Boeing has come close to rivalling Airbus, this is mainly due to the long standing practice of constantly re hashing 60s designs and technology on Boeings part. No problem with that providing no one else out there IS designing from a clean sheet of paper as Airbus is doing, as Matthew Murray says in his reply ref the A340 “Airbus developed it, airlines are buying it, passengers do like them, crews like them” sounds like a good case for the A340 to me. And if nothing else, if the products of Airbus Industrie have led the spawning of products like the 777 then thats beneficial to the entire aviation industry surely.
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