Bombardier win ruling.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/201 ... ictory-us/
Wissam24 wrote:Lose lose lose for Boeing and a win win win for Airbus here. Assuming any appeals are unsuccessful (which isn't a given, mind), I'd expect a sharehold lawsuit or two on that one.
GertrudetheMerciless wrote:Wissam24 wrote:Lose lose lose for Boeing and a win win win for Airbus here. Assuming any appeals are unsuccessful (which isn't a given, mind), I'd expect a sharehold lawsuit or two on that one.
Not quite sure that'll be an avenue they'll pursue, seeing as apparently the Canadians started sniffing to spend their money elsewhere for F-18 replacements (which could well have been Boeing's very own Super Hornet).
Tommy wrote:GertrudetheMerciless wrote:Wissam24 wrote:Lose lose lose for Boeing and a win win win for Airbus here. Assuming any appeals are unsuccessful (which isn't a given, mind), I'd expect a sharehold lawsuit or two on that one.
Not quite sure that'll be an avenue they'll pursue, seeing as apparently the Canadians started sniffing to spend their money elsewhere for F-18 replacements (which could well have been Boeing's very own Super Hornet).
Much stranger things have happened, but it appears that ship has sailed as a result of the above dispute.
Article dated 8th Dec 2017:
https://www.ft.com/content/d3094604-dc6 ... 4b1c09b482
Canada is now looking for second hand legacy Hornets from Australia.
I have wondered whether the Typhoon (or the Rafale) could be pushed to be exported to Canada. It's a working omni-role platform, it's not Boeing, it's a twin-engine generation 4.5 jet with proven performance and a pretty large and well-developed infrastructure system orchestrated around it. Second hand legacy F-18s are fine, but they're only going to prolong the inevitable. If the Super-H isn't the way to go, and Canada has already taken a dump on the idea of purchasing the F-35, I cant understand why Dassault or the Eurofighter consortium isn't making significant pushes across the pond. It would be nice to be able to sell our jets to a nation we "like" rather than places like Saudi etc..
Anyway, good for Bombardier. Boeing's policy of dispute/litigation has come home to roost. They can only roll that dice so many times. Disputing the B-21 selection, making *huge* issues regarding the KC-46, legal battles on the Saudi AH-6is, and you can bet your bottom dollar some sort of dispute if their airframe isn't picked for the T-X competition, has given them a monumental amount of bad press. Even when (and sometimes because) they win.
Corporations like Boeing obviously have entire departments weighing up cost/benefit scenarios of litigation, but Boeing have shaped themselves into a grubby corporate machine that will make every effort to sue the competition out of existence, or at the very least cost the US taxpayer millions of extra dollars because they don't get their way.
The above is very much a simplification, I know, but to go into the nuances of it would be a monumentally long post which I have neither the time nor inclination write, and no-one else would have the time or inclination to read. And, more importantly, I seldom have a clue what I'm actually talking about. I just wrote the above because I have a pizza in t'oven and I'm waiting for it to finish cooking
jalfrezi wrote:
Sorry Tommy I just can't agree with that at all, are you really trying to say pizza for Sunday lunch is OK?![]()
Tommy wrote:
Much stranger things have happened, but it appears that ship has sailed as a result of the above dispute.
Article dated 8th Dec 2017:
https://www.ft.com/content/d3094604-dc6 ... 4b1c09b482
Canada is now looking for second hand legacy Hornets from Australia.
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