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2006-10-04 Europe
Confirmed: Airbus Delays Superjumbo Jet For A Year
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Posted by .com 2006-10-04 03:20|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 And with those immortal words, the stock buyback program was launched!
Posted by gorb 2006-10-04 04:40||   2006-10-04 04:40|| Front Page Top

#2 damn. shoulda bought boeing at the first sign of problems.
Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan  2006-10-04 06:50||   2006-10-04 06:50|| Front Page Top

#3 ..For all practical purposes, this is a grim setback to the program. I simply cannot imagine any airline today being willing to wait an extra year for their planes, and the comments from Emirates and Virgin, I think, back that up. If Boeing plays its cards right and doesn't get cocky, this could leave them not just as the #1 builder of large passenger jet aircraft, but the only one.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-10-04 08:53||   2006-10-04 08:53|| Front Page Top

#4 [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/markandannie/Jokes/airbusjob.jpg[/IMG]

Maybe they ran out of glue
Posted by Cheaderhead 2006-10-04 10:46||   2006-10-04 10:46|| Front Page Top

#5 The real crusher will come if one of the major freight carriers cancels. No doubt the freighter version would have been the profit margin for this project. I believe Emirates has already dropped the 5 A380Fs they had on order in favor of the new 747-800F.
Posted by TZSenator 2006-10-04 12:13||   2006-10-04 12:13|| Front Page Top

#6 To tie in to yesterday, should we all buy Put options on EADS?

I don't know how well AF and Luft are doing. I can't see a American companues, their shaky financial positions, take that kind of hit.
Posted by Jackal">Jackal  2006-10-04 12:40|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]  2006-10-04 12:40|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm not sure you can buy a put option for EADS with a striking price higher than $0.

Al
Posted by Frozen Al">Frozen Al  2006-10-04 12:45||   2006-10-04 12:45|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm not sure you can buy a put option for EADS with a striking price higher than $0.

are you sayin then it's a shot put option Frank?
Posted by RD 2006-10-04 13:01||   2006-10-04 13:01|| Front Page Top

#9 In today's Seattle papers, the Boeing brass are being quoted as "privately happy" and there are supposedly internal pictures floating around the hallowed halls of the 'Lazy B Ranch' of their 747-LCF with three rows of PAX windows: imagine a triple-decker that fits in the same footprint as today's 747 fleet. (I know I sound like a broken record, but BCAC builds damn fine commercial airplanes).
Posted by USN, ret. 2006-10-04 14:34||   2006-10-04 14:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Go for it Boeing! Made in America is fine with me!
Posted by Besoeker 2006-10-04 14:36||   2006-10-04 14:36|| Front Page Top

#11 BCAC builds damn fine commercial airplanes

McDonnell Douglas built them better.
Posted by Speart Flerong2904 2006-10-04 17:57||   2006-10-04 17:57|| Front Page Top

#12 Yah. DC-10s anybody
Posted by Cheaderhead 2006-10-04 18:10||   2006-10-04 18:10|| Front Page Top

#13 This is the same EADS that won the US Army contract for light utility helicopters??? Great, our soldiers will be dependant on an aircraft company that cant perform as advertised. The Army needs to recompete the LUH, light helicopter contract, or leave all the aircraft at Ft Rucker where no soldiers could be at risk. I know A380's are a totally different aircraft but corperate bull%&$t transends a company.

Boeing should be toasting the good news.
Posted by 49 Pan 2006-10-04 21:05||   2006-10-04 21:05|| Front Page Top

#14 But will you be able to play Duke Nukem Forever from your seat?
Posted by DMFD 2006-10-04 21:59||   2006-10-04 21:59|| Front Page Top

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