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**NeroASERCH** · 10-06-2006, 07:19 PM

Originally posted by DanS

I disagree with this very much. In the airline manufacturing business, you can manufacture yourself into bankruptcy. Either there is a demand for the product or there isn't. If there is Airbus will get the financial support (read subsidies) to get the planes delivered - and over a 30 to 40 year product run (cf the 747) make a profit or if there isn't the demand they will have to cut production short and build something else.

I can already hear the complaints from (mainly) US posters about subsidies and market distortion. The simple reality is the European governments, particularly the French, have spent a great deal of money to ensure that there is a European competitor in the commercial airliner manufacturing business. They can't afford to drop out now, almost regardless of the cost.

10-06-2006, 07:19 PM	#22
NeroASERCH Join Date Jul 2006 Posts 5,147 Senior Member	Originally posted by DanS I disagree with this very much. In the airline manufacturing business, you can manufacture yourself into bankruptcy. Either there is a demand for the product or there isn't. If there is Airbus will get the financial support (read subsidies) to get the planes delivered - and over a 30 to 40 year product run (cf the 747) make a profit or if there isn't the demand they will have to cut production short and build something else. I can already hear the complaints from (mainly) US posters about subsidies and market distortion. The simple reality is the European governments, particularly the French, have spent a great deal of money to ensure that there is a European competitor in the commercial airliner manufacturing business. They can't afford to drop out now, almost regardless of the cost.
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