At a March press conference in Washington, D.C., called to explain why EADS would not protest, Chairman Ralph D. Crosby Jr. said the cost difference between Boeing's bid and that of EADS was about 10 percent; Boeing bid $20.6 billion and EADS bid $22.6 billion in today's dollars. While Boeing enjoyed a $500 million life cycle cost advantage in fuel usage and another $300 million advantage in a lower cost to build facilities for its smaller airplane, Crosby said the Air Force determined that EADS had an $800 million advantage in operational advantages as calculated by the Air Force's Integrated Fleet Aerial Refueling Assessment, or IFARA, tool.
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