Originally Posted by
toadman
Agreed a bit hypocritical of Boeing to be complaining about $22 billion in Euro gov't subsidies to fund the development of every single commercial Airbus a/c. Maybe the trade sanctions to purchase a used Airbus A380 will make the cost prohibitive? I guess we'll find out after the WTO rules on the Euro gov't WTO case against Boeing.
But I do hope HA doesn't select the A380. Seems to be overkill. But you never know.
Yep – you’re right in that hypocrisy abounds, but on all sides!
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel...ines/71568226/
https://skift.com/2015/04/09/wikilea...-in-subsidies/
https://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1...112/911210.PDF
Add funding via the backdoor through “foreign aid”:
“By law, nearly all U.S. assistance must be spent on American-produced goods. Israel spends nearly 75% of U.S. aid in the U.S. to purchase military equipment”
…that’s out of $38 billion…
http://www.adl.org/israel-internatio...id-israel.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-is...-idUSKCN11Q1VF
Yes, the WTO has just come done on the side of US (
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-37444780), but then there are counter claims against the US - FWIW looks to me that the US are simply smarter than the Europeans in the way they funnel the cash into their defence / aviation industries, but funnel the cash they surely do!
