787 Faces New Setback

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Bad phraseology - that refers to the plants from which the major subassemblies come from. Apologies for not making that point clearer in the post earlier.

Before that and indeed from day 1 Airbus have built aircraft with major assemblies supplied from different suppliers who were spread around Europe (and the globe) and suppliers who had national interests at heart.

Under the old Airbus Industrie consortium, the partners of CASA, Aerospatiale, Daimler(Chrysler) Aerospace and BAE all pooled resources together which then went on to form EADS.

Thats a 30+ year evolution. On the 787 distribution/supply chain for major subassemblies, that is quite different since all the players involved are separate entities not looking to converge as EADS did.

Either way, Boeing's "vision" of drawing paralells from the auto-industry to jet making has not worked out as it had hoped.

I think its a given that on the next new model they produce, it'll be a majority "in-house" effort.