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by fungi 5489 days ago
its PR, airbus relies on large cash injections from the EU. this is to make airbus look like a good corporate citizen and a good use of taxpayers money.
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No more than Boeing relies on the US taxpayer. Most likely this was just done because someone thought it would be cool.
Arguably Boeing relies much more on the US government in far more worrying ways than corporate welfare http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFUFFzkCQXw