Turkey Is Proposing to Buy Boeing and Airbus Passenger-Planes

ANKARA, Turkey —
Despite the flagging worldwide economy, Turkish Airlines would like to buy 105 airplanes from Boeing and/or Airbus, depending upon the proposals it receives. The company desires delivery by the second half of year 2010. Turkish Airlines’ passenger numbers have increased by 150% within the past four years.

As the Person Whose Blog Reports Continually on Aerospace, and Steadfastly Supports Senator McCain…

…I am certainly qualified to further comment on John McCain’s perceived complicity in the failure of the U.S. Airforce to grant the contract for their proposed aerial refueling tanker to Boeing. I’ve already commented on that, but I would like to share this by Michael Schuyler of Bainbridge Island Washington (a stone’s throw from Boeing), [...]