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Originally Posted by smoothmoniker
Nobody. I was just spouting off poorly-formed opinions based on partial information and wild conjecture.
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Your point was accurate. Boeing's 767 production line is diminishing due to superior competition. Boeing wanted corporate welfare to prop up the 767 by assuming Boeing will always get tanker contracts.
Boeing was using corruption at the highest levels of management and in the Air Force to win the contract previously. Corruption so flagrant that top Boeing management was removed. Still, if Boeing was making their best offer, then Boeing would have proposed a 777 tanker. But that product line has plenty of customers - does not need corporate welfare. Boeing did not want to convert a 767 production line to make superior 777s. Boeing hoped to automatically win the tanker contract to maintain a diminishing 767 production line - to avoid retooling by using corporate welfare. Boeing was not offering the better product. Boeing wanted government to protect a slowly dying product line.