AirBus Assembling Airliners in Mobile Already

http://www.airbus.com/company/aircraft-manufacture/how-is-an-aircraft-built/final-assembly-and-tests/

Remember when Boeing lost the original USAF tanker competition to Airbus, which was going to assemble KC-30 tankers in Mobile? Afterward Boeing protested the deal, and managed to snatch it away from Airbus, in favor of its own KC-46, based on the Boing 767. Well, the KC-46 is behind schedule and over budget and has not even flown yet.

Airbus still invested $600 million in a final assembly facility in Mobile, which opened last May. When they get up to full-speed in 2018, they will be building four aircraft per month in Mobile. The facility will employ 1,000 people.

There was a trained employee base here from the old NADEP facility, and I wonder if any of those folks took jobs in Mobile?

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:http://www.airbus.com/company/aircraft-manufacture/how-is-an-aircraft-built/final-assembly-and-tests/

Remember when Boeing lost the original USAF tanker competition to Airbus, which was going to assemble KC-30 tankers in Mobile? Afterward Boeing protested the deal, and managed to snatch it away from Airbus, in favor of its own KC-46, based on the Boing 767. Well, the KC-46 is behind schedule and over budget and has not even flown yet.

Airbus still invested $600 million in a final assembly facility in Mobile, which opened last May. When they get up to full-speed in 2018, they will be building four aircraft per month in Mobile. The facility will employ 1,000 people.

There was a trained employee base here from the old NADEP facility, and I wonder if any of those folks took jobs in Mobile?

1) The af tanker version of airbus would be just as far behind.
2) NADEP closed in the 80s. Doubtful any of those old farts are around and it would have take more than what was employed there.