Boeing gets its way

The European aerospace corporation EADS and its US partner Northrop Grumman have dropped their bid for a contract worth billions of dollars for building a new tanker aircraft for the US air force. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung sees another full-blown scandal in the offing: "Apparently the parameters for the call for bids were altered in favour of Boeing, which is why Northrop Grumman threw in the towel even before the deadline was up. [It] is certain that now the best product won't win, and when you look at the specifications published for Boeing's 767 tanker so far you can't help getting the feeling that the final version will be considerably more expensive. So all in all it's an unsavoury story that could mar transatlantic relations. Defence cooperation, it seems, is only worthwhile for America if is goes in just one direction." 

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