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Likewise. It is unfortunate that Boeing has suffered under some pretty
poor management for the last decade or two. If they'd have spent as
much time on airplane design and marketing as they did trying to get the
government to bail them out against Airbus, I think they'd be much more
competitive now.




It is indeed hard to avoid the supposition that Boeing is badly mismanaged in
recent years. The huge rift between the EURO and the dollar should translate
to approximately a 30% pricing advantage for Boeing - a theoretically
insurmountable advantage - yet they have been unable to leverage the advantge,
and have seen market share slipping to Airbus every year.

Meanwhile, faced with the public image momentum of the A380, they have
announced plans to discontinue the 747, and have released, then backed away
from, a number of different options to face-off the competition. To the public
view, Airbus is moving forward, unstoppable like a tank, while Boeing is
flip-flopping like a fish out of water.

G Faris