Boeing says global tanker orders hinge on U.S. ruling

Boeing officials have announced that the unfairly awarded $40 billion Air Force contract to European Airbus would devastate the sale of Boeing's tankers abroad. Airbus was started as a cartel subsidized by European governments and have never made a tanker in their history; Boeing has made tankers for the U.S. Air Force for the past 5 decades.

This unfairly awarded military contract will tie a crucial component of U.S. military security to the political whims of European states. It will also cost Americans thousands of jobs. We should all be outraged

Source Seattlepi:

"Most countries will be influenced by the decision the U.S. Air Force makes," Jim Albaugh, chief of Boeing's military unit, told reporters in Singapore. "To a large degree, our ability to sell tankers internationally will depend on what happens in the U.S."

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Global sales account for 13 percent of total revenue at Boeing's military unit, almost double the figure five years ago, Albaugh said.

Boeing's filing in March with the Government Accountability Office suspends the contract for as long as 100 days while the GAO conducts a review and hears a defense from the Air Force and winning bidders. Boeing will have to show that the choice of Los Angeles-based Northrop and EADS, based in Paris and Munich, Germany, violated Pentagon procedures or U.S. law. A GAO decision is due June 19.

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