XPost: soc.culture.russian, soc.culture.french, soc.culture.europe
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From: AHigherCalling@SemperFi.org
"John of Aix" wrote in message
news:41cdc8ef$0$800$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr...
> True American Hero wrote:
>> "Earl Evleth" wrote in message
>> news:BDF36EB6.2D3E7%evleth@wanadoo.fr...
>>> in article 41cdabb8$0$11518$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr, John of Aix at
>>> j.murphy@nospamlibertysurf.fr wrote on 25/12/04 19:02:
>>>
>>>> I'll tell you why they bought them and why more an more companies
>>>> buy Airbus, more than buy Boeings, because they are cheaper to buy,
>>>> cheaper to run and, all having the same cabin layout, save enormous
>>>> amounts in staff and pilot training costs. In short, Aibus makes
>>>> better aeroplanes. Tough shit sunshine.
>>>
>>>
>>> While I agree that Airbus makes a good airplane, the slide of the
>>> dollar, over 30%, should have eaten into Airbus's profit margin on
>>> whatever plane the make and sell.
>>>
>>
>> 35% since the beginning of 2002. If European airlines buy Boeing,
>> they get a 35% discount just on the value of the Euro versus the
>> dollar. In the case of Spain, they paid full price. As businessmen,
>> they made a bad decision for the long term health of their company.
>
> The Euro is currently about 12% over parity, that is to say at its
> introduction it was at $1.17, so the rise you see is completely
> relative. Furthermore you do not take into account the costs of changing
> currencies, nor the cost of parts which, if Boeing was chosen, would
> have to be paid for in fluctuating dollars as would any necessary
> technical assistance and training etc. I don't think you'd make a very
> good businessman.
>
Technical assistance and training are a very small percentage of the overall
purchase.
But yes, better to pay a 35% surcharge for the benefit of making the
purchase in stagnant Euros!
>
>>> In fact, for the first time in along time, France ran a trade
>>> deficit in 2004. That is worrisome.
>>>
>>
>> France is in big economic trouble.
>
> So says the great economist. France doesn't have a deficit of 500 US
> billion dollars and a plummeting currency that no one wants any more. Do
> you know the fable about the tortoise and the hare?
>
France will exceed the EU budget deficit again in 2005, just as in 2004 but
the EU will look the other way...applying one standard to the smaller EU
members and an altogether different standard for France and Germany.
France will eeek out 1 or 2% growth for 2004 but inflation will exceed that
growth. End result: for those few Frenchmen that actually do work for a
living, they will have less real buying power in 2005.
The budget deficit is great for the US. Europe must fund it or their
economies will collapse. A Europe with no USA to export to...hah-hah-hah!
French wines are 15% more than last year but USA and Aussie wines are
already outselling them. The dimwitted French over-planted too.
I see all the Euros are coming to the US on shopping sprees now. Cheap
prices and they escape the suffocating European taxes! So Johnny-boy, when
ya comin' to the USA to stock up on Mc Donalds cheeseburgers????
>>> On paper the 350 looks better than the 7E7. Moreover, Airbus has
>>> configurated their planes rationally so that a pilot trained
>>> to fly one model and be trained easily to fly an upgraded model.
>>
>> The practical matter is that pilots don't switch aircraft so this
>> means little.
>
> Pilots don't have the slightest choice in the matter, their bosses buy
> the planes and they learn to fly them. You'd be pretty crap in the
> personnel section too it seems to me.
>
Yep...and their bosses prefer to keep then *IN* the cockpit making money
instead of training them.
>
>
>
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