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Mourning Reagan
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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
They're nominally a private consortium. And, they'll point out that Boeing is heavily subsidized by DoD. It's pretty hard to disentangle.
My industry source tells me that one actual quality reason that allowed airbus to gain market share is that their standard cabin on the A320 series (I think that's it--the 737/757 equivalent) is approximately 10" wider than the one used by Boeing, which means slightly wider seats or more cabin room generally.
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One hopes that the 7E7 will even things out on that score. From what I can tell, the airlines are practically swooning over it, and if the 20% greater fuel efficiency thing is true, I think Boeing is going to have a lot of good years on the commercial side.
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