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Only final assembly of the planes that are sold to US airlines will be done in Mobile. In the Airbus world, final assembly tends to mean bolting together a rela
by skgoa 9y ago
Only final assembly of the planes that are sold to US airlines will be done in Mobile. In the Airbus world, final assembly tends to mean bolting together a relatively low number of finished sections that were produced somewhere else. So a lot of the labor will stay in Canada.
- dingaling 9y ago> In the Airbus world, final assembly tends to mean bolting together a relatively low number of finished sections that were produced somewhere else. Pretty much the same as modern Boeing. Something like 70% of the 787 structure is made abroad but glued together in the USA: http://static1.uk.businessinsider.com/image/58a768badd0895f0288b4818-800-/chart-889.jpg http://static1.uk.businessinsider.com/image/58a768badd0895f0... Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, Sweden and ( if RR engines chosen ) UK all send their assemblies to Seattle and Charleston. That's without considering avionics and internal systems. Hence the wording 'Country of final assembly' on the onboard safety cards, carefully chosen to obscure origins.