The possibility of a US manufacturing plant for Airbus Aircraft has potential implications for our state. As Norm Dicks says, it’s likely the Airbus proposal is “a Hail Mary at best” on the part of Airbus, as it’s hard to imagine such an arrangement coming together and being approved by congress in the desired time frame. Still, Washington lawmakers, Everett and Renton officials, and labor representatives will want to keep an eye on this.
I like Mobile, and they have some wonderful people there. But they seem a bit remote for locating a major airline factory, and they are right on the coast in the heart of hurricane territory.
Randy
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Here is the story:
Saturday, January 12, 2008
By Dominic Gates
Seattle Times aerospace reporter
Airbus will play a last-ditch trump card Monday in its bid to beat Boeing for an Air Force refueling tanker contract worth tens of billions of dollars.
Chief Executive Tom Enders plans to announce that if Airbus wins the tanker competition, it also will assemble commercial airplanes in the U.S.
Enders and Alabama politicians are to announce the plan in Mobile, where the tankers would be assembled.
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