According to an article in the Seattle Times from December 6th there is at least one analyst that thinks that EADS (Airbus) wins the long awaited USAF tanker order.
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| A330MRTT, the Airbus bid. |
The article sais that in the accidentally leaked documents earlier this month the A330MRTT scored well ahead of the Boeing 767 regarding the mission-effectiveness rating.
The effectiveness rating is one of three measures used by the Air Force to adjust the bid price for the airplanes. The two others are assumed to favor Boeing's smaller aircraft being military infrastructure construction costs and fuel burn over the entire life-cycle of the program.
But Thompson said the way the Air Force measured those criteria gave Boeing very little advantage over its rival.
The mission-effectiveness rating scores each airplane's capabilities as a tanker: how much fuel it delivers, how far it flies, how long it can stay on station. It was always clear that the larger A330 would score better than the 767 by this measure.
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| The KC-767, The Boeing bid |
Earlier this month the two outcomes from this rating were mixed up and Boeing received the A330 outcome and EADS (Airbus) received the 767 scores.
Whilst EADS opened the score data, Boeing had discovered the mistake earlier and sent the data back to the Air Force without reading it, because EADS had read the information already the Air Force decided to send both sides the scores for their own plane and that of their competitor.
The decision for the order has been postponed to Q1-2011.
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