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Old 06-24-2011 | 11:02 AM
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Originally Posted by l1011
Totally agree.

What happened to American Pride and supporting your own countries industry and jobs. Personally I will pay more for the same ticket on an airline that operates primarily US built equipment and when I book a ticket I refuse to book a airbus flight. Just my own little personal form of protest to the outsourcing of American jobs.

First, Airbus is a European company, so how is it "outsourcing" American jobs? It is a competitor to Boeing. By your logic, BMW, Ferrari, Fiat, Mazda, etc., are responsible for "outsourcing" American jobs as they are competition for Ford and GM. So competition and free-markets are not what you like, apparently.

Second, if you really are concerned about supporting companies that outsource American jobs, then you definitely should NOT fly on Boeing. Unlike Airbus, Boeing is an American company, but has decided to outsource overseas. Or perhaps you were unaware that the ONLY piece of the 787 that is being made in the USA is the tailfin. The rest are produced overseas, and shipped in for assembly in the USA. Even the wing, which Boeing previously had held close to home as an essential in-house and secretive manufacturing gem, is now being made by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, in Japan. This article details just where the different sections are made:

Business & Technology | Boeing 787: Parts from around world will be swiftly integrated | Seattle Times Newspaper

So to protest your aversion to "outsourcing", you had better not fly at all, seeing as how you will likely end up on an Airbus, Boeing, Canadair, or Embraer...
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