Dogfight: The Transatlantic Battle over Airbus [Hardcover]

Ian McIntyre (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 30, 1992 | ISBN-10: 0275942783 | ISBN-13: 978-0275942786

Dogfight examines the intense rivalry of the past two decades between the European Airbus consortium and the major U.S. aircraft manufacturers, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. From the Americans' point of view, Airbus has been heavily subsidized by its supporting governments--indeed nearly nationalized--and not exposed to the risks and disciplines of the market place. From the European perspective, Airbus has been a standard-bearer for European technological, manufacturing, and marketing prowess in the face of historical American industrial domination. This dispute has spilled over the bounds of the purely commercial and become a serious transatlantic trade issue. Although there has been a certain amount of admiring writing about Airbus in Europe, there has been no previous attempt to weigh the issues even-handedly by exploring them on both sides of the Atlantic. Dogfight examines the roots of the conflict in the middle sixties and carries the story forward to the tentative agreement on some of the outstanding issues reached by the U.S. administration and the European Commission in the spring of 1992. In placing the controversy in its political and international context, the author has had access to many of the key players in the industry in both Europe and the United States and has interviewed a large number of politicians, officials, and senior airline and aircraft executives.

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About the Author

IAN MCINTYRE was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and the College of Europe in Bruges.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Praeger Publishers (October 30, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0275942783
• ISBN-13: 978-0275942786
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,527,961 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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