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2007-02-06 Home Front Economy

UPS orders Boeing freighters, reviewing Airbus order

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-02-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 UPS is the only remaining customer after FedEx pulled out last year.

...and then there were none.

Posted by RWV 2007-02-06 00:43|| 2007-02-06 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 I still like the way George Will described it - Airbus fought hard for a knowingly bad/lousy contract, then made things worse for itself by knowingly designing = producing a bad/lousy airplane.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-02-06 01:09|| 2007-02-06 01:09|| Front Page Top

#3 I gather Boeing now has something like 1,100 aircraft on back order, which is about 50 more than they have ever had. And several of their non-aircraft divisions are also under capacity production, such as making JDAM conversion kits.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-02-06 09:53|| 2007-02-06 09:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Boeing better have more than that since Airbus has a 2500 plane backlog. End of 2006, Boeing had $174 billion backlog of commercial airliners or over 6 years at current production.

Posted by ed 2007-02-06 11:23|| 2007-02-06 11:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Here's a link to the George Will article that joe was talking about.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2007-02-06 11:24|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2007-02-06 11:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Might be a first Ptah. Good man.

Posted by Shipman 2007-02-06 17:25|| 2007-02-06 17:25|| Front Page Top

#7 From Ptah's link.

CEO of FedEx, says that 98 percent of the weight of international commerce is shipped by sea, but the 2 percent moved by air constitutes 40 percent of the economic value.

Jeebers.

Posted by Shipman 2007-02-06 17:29|| 2007-02-06 17:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Now that EADS has failed with the airbus, lets get them to fail sonner than later on the LUH. They boast they have delivered their first aircraft, in reality they delivered the one test aircraft they had. They have no where to produce the next aircraft.

Posted by 49 Pan 2007-02-06 20:40|| 2007-02-06 20:40|| Front Page Top

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