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| US govt helped Boeing in fight agai |
| US govt helped Boeing in fight against Airbus for max sales
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 3-January-2011
18:25:19 PM |
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The King of Saudi Arabia wanted the US to outfit his jet with the same high-tech devices as Air Force One. The President of Turkey wanted the Obama administration to let a Turkish astronaut sit in on a NASA space flight. In Bangladesh, the Prime minister pressed the State Department to re-establish landing rights at Kennedy International Airport in New York.
Each of these government leaders had one thing in common: they were trying to decide whether to buy billions of dollars’ worth of commercial jets from Boeing or its European competitor, Airbus. And US diplomats were acting like marketing agents.
This is the high-stakes, international bazaar for large commercial jets. At its heart, it is a wrestling match fought by executives at two giant companies, Boeing and Airbus.
To a greater degree than previously known, diplomats are a big part of the sales force, according to hundreds of cables released by WikiLeaks
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