Originally Posted by
Stayontarget
God who knows? Most of our Airbus are made in America so do we get reprieve? How’s about those motors? Are they mostly made in America?
I can see holding off classes for the summer if there is a slow down. The majority (11/17) of our planes weren't supposed to arrive until Q4. Perhaps we are all looking into the memo a little too literally and over reacting? Perhaps we will all just be flying Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday.
I always chuckle to myself when he says stop doing things that lose money in reference to not flying more on off peak days. What are we going to do if we can’t make money on peak days? Just stop flying? Sounds promising.
Likely no reprieve. My understanding is that Airbus started as an intra-European consortium of component manufacturers. Wings from UK, fuselage from France, stabs from Spain. It worked because of Schengen, and it worked also for Mobile and American customers because we had sane, educated trade policy.
But I’m assuming those European subcomponents are all gonna be tariffed before the get to Mobile, which means yes, Trump screwed us. And he screwed assembly line workers in Mobile. And assembly line workers in Seattle (Boeing customers refusing deliveries because of tit for tat tariffs). And anyone with a 401k. And the list goes on.