September 14, 2008

Boeing chief gambles on outsourcing (International Herald Tribune)

Some Like It Hot
When Chicago musicians Joe and Jerry witness a gangland murder they realize that their only escape is to dress as women and join an all-girls band on the way to a tour of Florida. Maybe ?nobody?s perfect,? as one character in this masterpiece suggests. But some movies are perfect, and Some Like It Hot is one of them. In Chicago, during the Prohibition era, two skirt-chasing musicians, Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon), inadvertently witness the St. Valentine?s Day Massacre. In ord

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Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:40:14 PDT
UPDATE 1-EADS denies backing out of U.S. tanker contest - Reuters
BERLIN, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Airbus parent EADS denied on Saturday it was thinking of abandoning efforts to supply air tankers to the United States after a German weekly reported it was threatening to walk away from the fraught tender process. Der …

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:30:00 GMT

Report: More delivery delays for troubled Airbus superjumbo - Monsters and Critics.com

Report: More delivery delays for troubled Airbus superjumbo - Monsters and Critics.com
Report: More delivery delays for troubled Airbus superjumboMonsters and Critics.com - 1 hour agoParis - The schedule of deliveries of the Airbus A380 superjumbo aircraft to its customers will have to be revised for a fifth time, the weekly Le Journal

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:14:21 GMT
Pentagon cancels Airbus contract - Times Online
The Pentagon has cancelled a defence contract that would have secured 11,000 British jobs, after fierce political lobbying by American companies. Airbus, the European aircraft manufacturer, won a contract to supply the United States Air Force (USAF …

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:19:00 GMT
Boeing chief takes a gamble
Boeing Co chief executive Jim McNerney is betting his career that the world’s biggest-selling plane maker can survive a strike by its assembly workers and emerge stronger by holding firm on its right to …

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:57:01 GMT
Will Boeing strike last two months?
Although Boeing Inc. (NYSE: BA) won a recent victory in its battle to delay the competition for a $35 billion Air Force airborne tanker, it faces a lengthy strike with its machinists — one that could last as long as two months.

Will Airbus leave the $35 billion tanker to Boeing?
Reuters reports that EADS, the parent of Airbus, has suggested it may not bid for the $35 billion Air Force contract for airborne refueling tankers. Reuters quotes aa senior EADS manager as saying, “We will only bid if we can be sure