Originally Posted by
Firewind
Forget thee not the EC. As the most recent article I read put it, "France" is in on the deliberations...
http://news.yahoo.com/boeing-propose...--finance.html
(@ paragraph 7, cited here because the defenders seem to be on the tack that we customers, rather than Boeing and they, need to be justifying everything.)
That was intentional because the only European owner today is IIRC LOT. And LAN and Ethiopian ares just beginning so those regulators will not be factors, assuming they might have been.
Thus the Japanese and Americans have rather more at stake. I do not mean to dismiss the Europeans, who have an enormous issue, including with the electrical system falling under European supervision.
Sorry, if that seemed to be a slight. I was just thinking of where the 50 aircraft are...