RationalityKeith
Delta was also tough when Boeing sleazers convinced US government to levy a tariff on Bombardier C-Series airliners.
Delta shifted them to airlines outside the US that it has a financial interest in, such as one in Mexico.
Delta was also tough when Boeing sleazers convinced US government to levy a tariff on Bombardier C-Series airliners.
Delta shifted them to airlines outside the US that it has a financial interest in, such as one in Mexico.
What about parts for the aircraft they currently have? Will passengers be happy when flights are unnecessarily cancelled just because warehousing marked up parts became too expensive?
Airbus loves to claim that 50% of the value of their heavily-subsidized aircraft are components from the USA. The CEO of DEIDelta needs to get a grip and embrace Trump reciprocal tariffs, which should ultimately end with lower tariffs for all international trade. Delta’s CEO could however help lower the cost of flying by lobbying against shockingly high airport fees and ridiculous prices charged on everything sold within an airport terminal.
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Maybe get an EU operator’s certificate, keep the planes on the EASA register and operate them from the EU, just as easyJet arranged to do post-Brexit? (I don’t know if easyJet ever implemented it after getting the cert.)
What? Unanticipated fees? Maybe a tiny bit of karma. I don’t promote trade wars or giant tariffs, but it couldn’t happen to a nicer crowd…
US sourced detail parts get European tariffs applied when going into Europe. Same parts then get US tariffs applied when the assembly comes back into the US. As the Italians might say what a messa!
Yes Delta and Airbus! Simply ignore the ravings of the orange menace, and go about your business as usual, because his words create exactly zero laws. A president’s executive order does not create a new global law. Executive orders are directives issued by the president to manage operations WITHIN the federal government. They have the force of law but must be rooted in existing laws or constitutional authority and as they have only the scope of operations within the federal government - Delta’s contract with Airbus has not been magically altered.