Alabama scored a major economic coup when Europe's Airbus announced Monday that it plans to erect a $600 million plant outside Mobile and hire 1,000 workers to build narrow-body planes from the A320 family. The Toulouse, France aerospace company said it entered the home turf of its rival, Boeing, to get closer to its customers. The United States is the largest single-aisle aircraft market in the world, with an estimated need for 4,600 aircraft during the next 20 yea...