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Boeing Documents How Airbus Skewed Rules

Published 06/12/08 EIC Staff - Print Article
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One week from today the Government Accountability Office (GAO) will rule on the legitimacy of the $40 billion Air Force-Airbus deal. European Airbus was awarded the contract over the more qualified American based Boeing. The Economic Policy Institute estimates 14,000 U.S. jobs will be lost because of this contract.

Boeing has listed a series of indictments below documenting irregularities in the awarding process, which further calls into question the legitimacy of the contract. It looks like the deck was stacked against Boeing from the beginning:

Source Seattle Times:

The Air Force misled Boeing, indicating it preferred a smaller aircraft, so Boeing decided not to offer its larger 777.

• The cost analysis was badly skewed so that the two planes came out even. Boeing contends the larger Airbus planes, even though fewer are needed, would be more expensive.

• The mission requirements were belatedly adjusted to favor the A330. Boeing says its smaller airplane is better suited to operate out of austere airfields near combat zones.

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