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How do those socialist countries compete with lowest corporate tax nation of the World, the USA?
Anyone on The Hill even notice, or are the parties preoccupied with fueling anger on fundamental economic issues, debt ceiling …
American Orders 460 New Planes From Boeing, Airbus
(ABC News) July 20, 2011 – American Airlines is buying at least 460 new planes over the next five years in what it calls the biggest airline order in history. And in a victory for Airbus, it’s splitting the work between the European plane maker and Boeing.
American said it will buy 260 planes from Airbus and 200 from Boeing Co. It expects the new, better-mileage planes to provide much-needed savings on fuel costs. American’s current fleet is among the least fuel-efficient in the industry.
The jets carry a sticker price of more than $38 billion, although big airlines routinely get discounts. And American might have played one aircraft maker off the other to get a better deal.
AMERICAN CURRENTLY FLIES AN ALL-BOEING FLEET
American decided to buy 200 planes from Boeing’s 737 family of workhorse single-aisle planes, with deliveries starting in 2013. Half are expected to be equipped with updated, more fuel-efficient engines. The airline said it will take options for another 100 737s.
American also will buy 260 planes from Airbus’s A320 series with deliveries starting in 2013, and take options and purchase rights for 365 more. Starting in 2017, American will get the first of 130 copies of a new Airbus plane called the A320neo — for new engine option — which Airbus claims will be 15 percent more fuel-efficient than current jets when it goes into service in late 2015.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
