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Article: AIRBUS HAS A HEAD START BOEING IS AT A DISADVANTAGE AS IT BATTLES ITS RIVAL FOR THE LONG-DISTANCE MARKET.(Business)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- February 4, 2004
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Byline: JAMES WALLACEP-I reporter
The Airbus A380 "whaleJet" does not pose as much of a threat to Boeing as the company's critics say, even though it will supplant Boeing's 747 as the queen of the skies in a couple of years, according to noted aviation expert Michael Boyd.
Rather, it is the new Airbus A340-500 that represents the bigger threat to Boeing, according to Boyd, president of Boyd Group Aviation Systems Research in Evergreen, Colo.
The new Airbus plane, which entered service with Emirates Airlines in October, can fly farther than any other jetliner, making possible non-stop ultra-long-range routes to city pairs nearly half way ...