49 Quotes by Richard Aboulafia

Both sides can claim victory. It looks like a reasonable compromise.

Boeing has all the blue chip orders. Airbus only has 100 orders for the A350.

These moves get them closer to the customer. And the customer that counts is in Washington.

Right now things are good, but there's not enough permanent linkage to establish a trend.

The one thing that gives (the union) that power is that outsourcing jobs takes a lot of time, but if you make life very difficult for the manufacturer these jobs are leaving,

The money makes no material difference to either side -- there is no reason for this strike to be happening.

A new CEO, a new approach to doing business, and clear up this kind of unfinished business -- that's the strategy here, ... It's a steep price to pay, but markets hate uncertainty. It's a price worth paying for Boeing.

You're tapping in to the most promising revenue stream in the world.

You're putting a lot of Canadian content in this plane, which means if it fails, much of Canada's aerospace industry really feels that pain, and perhaps fails with it.