Delta Attempts to Ground 'The Bank of Boeing'

摘要

This year Congress will debate whether to renew the charter of the Export-Import Bank, the 80-year-old federal institution that helps U.S. companies sell products and services overseas by providing loan guarantees and other sweeteners to foreign buyers. And like the last time the bank came up for renewal, in 2012, that debate will reig-nite a bitter, years-long feud between two big American companies: Boeing, which lobbies furiously to protect the bank, and Delta Air Lines, which presses just as hard to eliminate the bank's financial aid for foreign buyers of Boeing's largest jets-who also happen to be Delta rivals.