Assembly Line: Helicopters Satellites and European Plane-Maker

assembly line: Speaking to an audience of Alabama politicians and aerospace workers, Chief Executive Tom Enders hailed a day of pride for Airbus at a ceremony peppered with patriotic U.S. references and highlighting other investments in helicopters and satellites, according to The Japan Times. There has been an increase in aerospace investment in the southeastern United States, where U.S. rival Boeing Co. has a plant assembling long-haul 787 Dreamliners in South Carolina. The European plane-maker said it would invest 300 million and create 400 jobs in the plant, to be built in the port of Mobile alongside an existing assembly line for its best-selling A320 passenger jet, which already employs 700 people. ; Alabama and the city of Mobile would provide a total of some 26 million in state and municipal incentives to support the development, officials said. Airbus plans to use the Mobile site to assemble the 110-130-seat A220 for U.S. airlines, which have ordered 250 of the planes including 135 since Airbus took control last July. Although Boeing ultimately lost its trade case, Airbus said it still made sense to serve U.S. demand from the Alabama site. The decision to produce some A220's in the United States was initially seen as a trade boost for Canada after Boeing accused its developer Bombardier Inc of dumping the foreign-made jet at low-ball prices to win a deal with Delta Air Lines Inc. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.