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Re:Airbus ready to axe A380 if fails to win Emirates deal by junkscience2017 on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @11:23AM (#16015656)
Yet Bombardier itself is subsidized to the point where many have suggested it would be easier to just nationalize it...yet no one is critiquing that arrangement
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Re:Airbus ready to axe A380 if fails to win Emirates deal by alexland on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @03:24PM (#16017730)
That arrangement is heavily critiqued, particularly that Bombardier is still controlled by private shareholders (and is receiving significant public funding).

It's pretty clear that airplanes are expensive to build, and every large plane manufacturer has government subsidies, but Boeing is being particularly anti-competitive in this instance and is getting away with it.

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Re:Airbus ready to axe A380 if fails to win Emirates deal by Analemma_ on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @03:52PM (#16017928)
What does "particularly" anti-competitive mean? Boeing, Airbus, and Bombardier all get government subsidies. Are there are reliable numbers about how large these subsidies are showing that Boeing's are significantly bigger?
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Re:Airbus ready to axe A380 if fails to win Emirates deal by toyg on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @09:41PM (#16019929)
> What does "particularly" anti-competitive mean?

The fact that they have instigated litigation in what is, for them, a relatively fringe sector.

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