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Blair Maynard wrote in message . ..
On 30 Jun 2003 14:54:44 -0700, (Quant) wrote: This post is specially for brooks. Hebrew: http://www.globes.co.il/serve/globes...asp?did=701548 Israel Aircraft Industries was excluded from the Airbus 380 project because of a political decision of the goverment of Israel to buy only Boeing planes by El Al. Exactly what "price" are you talking about? What would the benefits of being included in the Airbus 380 project have been and would they have outweighed the costs? According to understandings between IAI and Airbus, IAI was supposed to manufacture parts of the Airbus 380 in Israel. We're talking about revenues of at least 50% from the cost of the Airbus planes El Al intended to purchase. It was profitable for El Al, for IAI and for Airbus. Then the state department and the government of Israel interfered (El Al was a governmental company till few weeks ago), and El Al bought only Boeing 777's. More details you can find he http://airtransportbiz.free.fr/Fleets/LY777.html It's important to note that I posted this post only for Brooks. I don't care to pay a bit more when it comes to friends. America is a friend and the hypocrite European terrorist-supporters are not. So, I don't have a problem with the Boeing deal. But its unpleasant to hear _all day_ people like Brooks who is obsessed _morning to night_ to slam Israel on every opportunity he has in r.a.m, especially on the subject of the US aid to Israel. Recently I posted a post about the "Python 5" (Rafael just presented it on the Paris Air Show). Not surprisingly, "the obsessed" jumped and asked "when it will be sold to China"? Even though he knows that even the "Python 4" wasn't sold to China because we don't sell cutting-edge technology to anyone. There's an understanding between US and Israel on this subject, the same understanding that guarantees that Israel will have better F-15's/F-16's than Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Friendship is a two way street. |
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