UK orders 14 tankers from EADS
March 27, 2008 by Dagpotter · Comment
Filed under: Boeing, Contract Awards, EADS, England, commercial aviation, logistics
Filed under: Boeing, Contract Awards, EADS, England, commercial aviation, logistics
As predicted EADS along with a group of English and French companies won a contract to build 14 tankers for the Royal Air Force. See a story here. The contract is worth $26 Billion. Boeing had been eliminated from the competition a few years earlier.
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