Originally Posted by
TonyC
How many of those Boeing airliners are financed for purchase by AMERICAN airlines, and how many of the discount finance deals are given to our FOREIGN competitors?
I don't mind Boeing selling all the airplanes they can build to whoever can buy 'em, but when our foreign competitors are given the advantage of a good financing deal from our federal government, I DO mind.
Maybe good for Boeing, but not so good for the airlines that employ American pilots, or the American pilots they employ.
RHETORICAL QUESTION: Just why AREN'T a lot of commercial banks clamoring to lend to airlines in sub-Saharan Africa?
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I'm sure we can go round and round debating the relative merits of the Ex-Im financing versus alleged damage to U.S. carriers, but the fact of the matter is that they are helping the one major manufacturer of aircraft left in America to compete against a subsidized European company ( Airbus ). That provides tens of thousands of high paying of jobs to American workers.
U.S. majors are buying the heavily subsidized Airbus products at lower cost to compete just as much as foreign airlines are buying Boeing products with good finance rates.
Those sub-Saharan Africa carriers buying Boeings sure aren't a threat to U.S. majors, are they? It's not like DAL, UAL, and USAirways are serving Khartoum, Addis Ababa, etc.
Can you detail for me how a Middle Eastern carrier ( Emirates, Etihad, Qatar ) transporting passengers from secondary cities in India via their hubs in the Middle East are hurting U.S. carriers; their pilots; or their alliance partners who never served those cities?
Also detail how using Ex-Im financed Boeings to fly passengers from Lagos, Accra, Abidjan, Conakry, Luanda via Dubai to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong is in any way hurting U.S. pilots or U.S. airlines.
Typhoonpilot