aIRBUS AND bOEING: a cOMPARISON by Jeffrey Everette Hardee A Paper Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for PUP 598 - Air Transportation and Regulation ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY September 2004 It may be argued that the next major challenge in the business of air transportation‚ beyond the invention of heavier-than-air flight and jet-powered planes‚ is the worldwide separation of the market between two mega-corporations. Airbus and Boeing currently dominate about 90%
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1. Reading for this Lecture Porter M. (1990)‚ The Competitive Advantage of Nations‚ Chapters 3&4 2. Why Location Matters The ways that firms create and sustain competitive advantage in global industries provides the necessary foundation for understanding the role of the home nation in the process. There are five premises we must understand relating to national advantage: 1) The nature of competition and the sources of competitive advantage differ widely among industries and industry segments
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Airbus vs. Boeing Case Analysis What would be the value of a new VLCT to both companies? In order to value the market for VLCT‚ we constructed a financial model using minimal assumptions and no outside data (See Exhibit 1). In terms of the qualitative benefits for both: * Monopoly status on VLCT market * Douglas eliminated as competition * Significantly raise barriers for new industry entrants MAJOR ASSUMPTION: This evaluation of VLCT based on each company developing the aircraft
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Airbus versus Boeing: When is Intervention Not Intervention? 1. Where do you stand? Do you think the EU subsidies and soft loans to Airbus are fair? Why or why not? What advantages does Airbus gain from free financial support from the EU governments? Are complaints about the EU government intervention fair in light of Europe’s long history of democratic socialism? I think that the subsidies and soft loans provided to Airbus are unfair and provide them with an unfair competitive advantage
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Simplified Valuation Analysis for the Airbus A3XX Key Assumptions as of 2008 Price per Plane Number of Planes Operating Margin $225 40 17.5% Discount Rate Assumptions (a) Risk-free Rate 6.0% 10-year US Treasury yield (p. 8) Asset Beta 0.84 Risk Premium 6.0% Discount Rate 11.0% in millions General Assumptions as of 2000 Inflation Rate 2.0% Tax Rate 38.0% Results from the Model NPV = After-tax IRR = Pre-tax IRR = # planes sold by 2019 Capacity Constraint Violated? Required Investment as of 2000
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around? UCLA geology professor and Pulitzer prize winner Jared Diamond delves into this issue in his 1997 talk‚ “Why Did Human History Unfold Differently On Different Continents For The Last 13‚000 Years?” He argues: over the last 13‚000 years‚ biological and evolutionary patterns have had a dramatic effect on human population numbers‚ technology development‚ disease proliferation‚ and the determination of conquest and land domination. Diamond supports his claims by raising questions about human history
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A to Z - Abbreviations & Acronyms http://www.chipsplace.com/helpful/Airbus/A%20to%20Z.htm#Abbreviations A to Z - Abbreviations & Acronyms (complete list found in back of PH) The really short list of Airbus acronyms and abbreviations: (before you get to it try to figure out what THS is) α – Stands for ALPHA as in α PROT. Refers to Angle of Attack. ACM – Air Cycle Machine ACP – Audio Control Panel‚ allows pilot to select which radios or interphones to listen to. ADIRS - Air Data Inertial Reference
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DIAMOND MINING AND ITS IMPACT ON ENVIROMENT * Diamond is the strongest natural mineral known by a man. It is a crystalline form of carbon. * Composed primarily individual crystals of a cubic appearance. * There are three main uses for Diamonds * Industrial * Fashion (only 5% of diamonds) * Investment Approximately 130‚000‚000 carats (26‚000 kg) of diamonds are mined yearly‚ with a total value of nearly US$9 billion‚ and about 100‚000 kg are
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mineralogy‚ diamond (from the ancient Greek αδάμας – adámas "unbreakable") is an allotrope of carbon‚ where the carbon atoms are arranged in a variation of the face-centered cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice. Diamond is renowned as a material with superlative physical qualities‚ most of which originate from the strong covalent bonding between its atoms. In particular‚ diamond has the highest hardness and thermal conductivity of any bulk material. ELECTRICAL CONDUCTANCE: - . Diamond is less
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Ryan Conde QU301 Skyers Blood Diamonds Conflict diamonds are most commonly found in Africa‚ and are mined by slaves. The diamonds mined in this area were coined “blood diamonds” because enabled violence and destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives. I believe that as a global community we allowed‚ and sometimes encouraged the trade of conflict diamonds. Conflict diamonds derived from war zones and were sold to fuel insurgencies and guerilla groups. The lack of care was especially apparent
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