| ▲ | buckle8017 15 hours ago |
| Nothing to learn here, they were just scamming various governments. That's why they promised to expand to so many places, each government subsidized them separately. |
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| ▲ | leviliebvin 15 hours ago | parent [-] |
| Expanding to multiple EU states is a requirement to satisfy the various governments if you are getting public EU funding. See Airbus for an example. |
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| ▲ | rob74 15 hours ago | parent [-] | | The difference is that Airbus didn't as much build new factories (and certainly not several at the same time) as it is a consortium (and later a unified company) of formerly independent European aerospace companies. E. g. their current German plants, Hamburg (commercial aircraft) and Donauwörth (helicopters) used to belong to MBB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt-B%C3%B6lkow-Bloh...) and then DASA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DASA). That's a consolidation similar to what happened in the US, albeit maybe with more "state interference". | | |
| ▲ | moomin 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | I read something once about the question of Airbus and Boeing subsidies. The short answer was “It’s complicated.” Of course, that particular question seems to have been rendered irrelevant by Boeing’s quality crisis. |
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