Word: forgeard
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...says. It's a safe bet, too, that Stonecipher won't be jetting to Toulouse this week to join four European leaders, over a dozen airline CEOs, scores of journalists and more than 5,000 invited guests at Airbus headquarters, where his rival, Airbus CEO Noël Forgeard, is officially unveiling the mammoth A380, which cost $12 billion to launch. The A380 is a powerful symbol of the coming-of-age of the 35-year-old Airbus, and underscores the fact that the world's two major commercial airplanemakers - Airbus and Boeing - are at each other's throats...
Fasten Your Seat Belts Few industrial rivalries are as intense and bitter as the transatlantic, multibillion-dollar dogfight between U.S. airplanemaker Boeing and its France-based nemesis, Airbus. Besides the verbal vitriol the companies consistently exchange - Airbus CEO Noël Forgeard recently accused Boeing of conducting a "campaign of untruths" - governments on both sides of the Atlantic have occasionally pushed the boundaries of diplomacy in trying to promote their respective national champions. Skyrocketing fuel prices and cut-back purchase plans have made the battle fiercer than ever, and last week a full-scale trade donnybrook erupted. Fulfilling a campaign...
...Yanks at their own game, but Leahy downplays any national typecasting. The most significant thing about the sales staff, he says, is not his American background but the team approach that he has fostered. "There are no divas here. This is not about me or [Airbus CEO] Noel Forgeard selling planes over a 2 1/2-hour lunch. We have built a team from the ground up. Salesmen, contract specialists, finance specialists, airline analysts and pilots all work together...