Originally Posted by TomSmith


Airbus is heavily subsidized and probably could not compete otherwise (sure seem to be a lot of the falling out of the air).

Can you cite an example of this for us?



Sure:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/18/business/airbus.php

Another article about Regional Jets. Long so just go down to where it talks about government subsidies. Not a problem since we don't really need to build airplanes in this country :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer

Piper

Last edited by Piper1; 06/04/08.