British Airways and Singapore in the past have been very loyal and big customers of Boeing but have recently started to buy from Airbus.

United is the world's largest airline and they do operate some A319's, with the rest being Boeings (and a few aging DC-10's). I wonder how many Boeing's United has in its fleet.

Boeing and Airbus both make good airplanes. It seems that Airbus will win the long-term war unless Boeing makes some changes. With the exception of the 777, all of Boeings planes are based upon designs from the 60's and 70's. They do have a flying wing on the idea board and it will be interesting if they will proceed with this new radical design.

EASTWIND: star wars defense shields are in reality just one big jobs program. No rouge nation or terroist group would go through the expense of firing a scud or ICBM at the US--it would be way to expensive. The most likely avenue would be to place either a bio/nuclear bomb aboard a container and explode it as the ship pulls into New York harbor. There is nothing out there that can stop this sort of attack.

[This message has been edited by Tango (edited 02-15-2001).]